password search

[Bob Stockler]

Joe Chasan wrote (on Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:16:41PM -0400):

| can anyone think of a way with fp5.0 to non-destructively see if any 
| menus, screens, or output formats have (runtime) passwords on them?  
| i don't need to know the passwords and certainly don't need to change 
| them.
| 
| o/s is unix, so i can script it once i have the basics.

I have a way, in my "prc.pprc" filePro table to test to see
if processing tables are saved encoded with a password, but
no help for anything else except filePro User Menus (my ME2
program does that).

If I had to do that, I think I'd probably write a shell or
AWK program that used the filePro commands, sending them a
stream of characters that opened/saved/closed target files.

Maybe I'd do that with commands in the background, remembering
their PID's, followed by a sleep. then if they were hung up by
a password requirement after the sleep I'd report them as having
a password, kill their PID and move on.

Sounds like a lotta work, but maybe less work than testing them
all by hand.

Bob

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