Processing Password Questions

[John Esak]

Oh good, you are lucky (and maybe smart) to have ABE=ASCII in your
environment.

Do yourself a huge favor.... *copy down that password if you see it again...
when you are excising it with Word.*  Keep a copy of the gobbleydegook,
because it may help you some day at the client's like you say.  You would
just put that mess of characters back as the 4th line of the path file, then
get into the table with ABE set, store out all the tables. with NO
password....   lots of ways to do this... you get the idea.

John Esak




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Olman [mailto:garyolman1 at hvc.rr.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 8:23 PM
> To: john at valar.com; Filepro-List
> Subject: RE: Processing Password Questions
>
>
> John;
> I have always had ABE=ASCII set. Most of the processes have not
> been opened
> in a long time so maybe I am not in as deep as I could be. The
> few that ask
> for a processing password  I opened up in word and remove the password on
> the first line. Then save it out. Testing it by putting debug on the first
> line and opening it successfully and then running the process,
> then I treat
> it as a runaway process and X it out. It still does not develop a PW. So I
> hope I am mainly in clear. But time will tell.
>
> Also this is acerbated by the fact that I have moved some of
> these processes
> back and forth between my computer and my client. Now I notice that they
> also have a 4th line in FPPATH. I intend to remove that tomorrow when the
> operators are working, just in case.
> Thanks again
> Gary
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Esak [mailto:john at valar.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 4:32 PM
> To: Gary Olman
> Cc: Fplist (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Processing Password Questions
>
>
>
> Gary,
> Unfortunately, I don't think you're off the hook yet. From the
> time the 4th
> line had the password on it... every processing table you saved will have
> that password written into it. If you have always had ABE=ASCII
> set in your
> config file (or just in the environment) you won't have too much trouble
> removing it from these files. If you don't have that set, you are in for
> some hassle when you try and modify one of those passwords. Is there *any*
> chance you have a save/backup with the fppath file that *had* the 4th line
> password on it. At least then you could copy it and use it to get rid of
> *all* the passwords first, *then* get rid of the 4th line.
>
> Did you by any chance copy it down? Or, hopefully, you can
> restore a backup
> that *has* that fourth line. If you SAVE'd any processing tables while it
> was in place, they will be infected/infested/protected/snarfed with this
> password, and you won't be able to edit them again without
> getting rid of it
> somehow.
>
> John
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Gary Olman
> > Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 10:34 AM
> > To: Filepro-List
> > Subject: RE: Processing Password Questions
> >
> >
> > Thank you all. The problem was that I had some thing on line 4
> in FPPATH.
> > Probably an old site password setting.  I removed it and  Now it
> > seems to be
> > working fine.
> > Gary
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: GCC Consulting [mailto:gccconsulting at comcast.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2005 3:50 PM
> > To: 'Gary Olman'; 'Fpl'
> > Subject: RE: Processing Password Questions
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of
> Gary Olman
> > Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2005 2:10 PM
> > To: 'Fpl'
> > Subject: FW: Processing Password Questions
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Olman [mailto:garyolman1 at hvc.rr.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 9:29 AM
> > To: 'filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com'
> > Subject: Processing Password Questions
> >
> > Using FP 5.0.14 on XP single user. I have no passwords set and I
> > don't want
> > any. It seems that if I break out of a process using the "X" in
> the upper
> > right corner, and if I have debug on set in the process, I will build a
> > processing password, which I don't want. To get rid of it I have
> > to open the
> > process in Word and remove it.
> >
> > The question is what is setting the password and how can I eliminate it
> > forever?
> > Thanks
> > Gary
> >
> > The simple answer, but one you are probably mot looking for, is
> DON'T SHUT
> > DOWN FP using the X button.  When you do this, fp is not exited
> properly.
> > Windows has no idea of how to close fp properly and your
> > processing table is
> > closed in an unnatural state.  If you want to exit fp, close it
> > properly.
> >
> > If you need to debug a process and it may "run away" while
> > debugging, make a
> > copy of the processing table before you debug it, or select just a few
> > records to test on.
> >
> > Richard Kreiss
> > GCC Consulting
> >
> >
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