Creation Password prompt

[Enrique Arredondo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Enrique Arredondo" <henry at vegena.net>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: Creation Password prompt


> Quoting Enrique Arredondo (Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:32:46 -0800):
> [...]
>> >> > I'm moving a database from one old SCO box to my current one but
>> >> > after copying all the files using ftp  to the new box , I get this
>> >> > prompt all the time:
>> >> >
>> >> > Enter Creation Password for 'bay.WRITEUP'
>> >> >
>> >> > How can I get rid of that prompt ?
> [...]
>> > if he's getting prompted for a creation password on files that he was
>> > not getting before, chances are something got corrupted in the copy,
>> > so the question is how did he copy all the files via ftp to the new
>> > box.
> [...]
>> I copied all of the files using tarball, and still getting the damn
>> "enter creation password" , I copied from an SCO unix old machine into
>> REDHAD linux filepro installation and it works flawless, but then after
>> I tar and move from linux to the New SCO 5.0.7 box I start getting all
>> the errors. I wonder if the restore I did on the linux from tape was
>> the trick to success ?
>
> As long as the file hasn't changed from the original system to the new
> system (and tar shouldn't change anything in a file), there is nothing
> in the above description that would cause a creation password to appear
> on a filePro file.
>
> Can you give the exact steps you used, and exactly when/where you get
> the "enter creation password" prompt?  ("I get this prompt all the
> time" isn't very accurate.  For example, I doubt that you get such a
> prompt at the main filePro menu.)
>

Hi, Here's what I did, I restored from Tape all the files from the OLD SCO 
box into the current SCO 5.0.7 which has filepro configured already working 
great.
Then I changed the name for all the files that I restored to something that 
makes them different from the others, like I added the prefix "bay." , so I 
ended up with all filepro names being "bay.inventory" etc.....

The next step was doing a chown filepro bay.*  and then a chgrp sys bay.*

Next all subdirs    "chown filepro ./bay*/*" and "chgrp filepro ./bay*/*"
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Ok , now if I want to clerk one of this files here's what I get:

       ENTER PASSWORD FOR SCREEN 1:   ....then after 3 tries......

*** A filePro Error Has Occurred ***

On File: /usr2/appl/filepro/bay.INV/screen.1

Incorrect password.
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Ok, now try to DEFINE the file:

ENTER CREATION PASSWORD FOR 'bay.INV'   ....then after a few tries....

*** A filePro Error Has Occurred ***

On File: /usr2/appl/filepro/bay.INV/map

Incorrect password.

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Ok, now try to access the DEFINE SCREENS

ENTER CREATION PASSWORD FOR 'bay.INV'   ....then after a few tries....

*** A filePro Error Has Occurred ***

Cannot open file.

On File: /usr2/appl/filepro/bay.INV/lockfile

Incorrect password.


so DEFINE PROCESSING , DEFINE OUTPUT, won't work either

the only one that works ok is "DXMAINT" it rebuilts the indexes without 
asking me
for any password.

WHAT else can I try ?

Thanks