enter creation password when lookup with qualifiers?

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> From: filepro-list-
> bounces+gccconsulting=comcast.net at lists.celestial.com [mailto:filepro-
> list-bounces+gccconsulting=comcast.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf
> Of Bruce Easton
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 4:03 PM
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> Subject: RE: enter creation password when lookup with qualifiers?
> 
> joe at magnatechonline.com wrote Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:36 PM:
> 
> [..]
> >
> > if you're talking about storing all this information in an additional
> > file (aside from prc & tok), then may as well add another thing to
> that
> > file - which automatic table is to be associated with the particular
> > prc table.
> >
> > --
> > -Joe Chasan-                           Magnatech Business Systems,
> Inc.
> 
> Important point that I was not clear on.  I was thinking the approved
> list of files would be contained somehow in the tok table.  So my prior
> statement that runtime programs would just be stripped of checking for
> creation password could be done, but only if it were replaced with
> the runtimes knowing from the toks (or some new external encoded file)
> that certain file lookups had been pre-approved.  So, in essence,
> from where we are now:
> 
> CREATION:
> At attempt to save table - check lookups - prompt literally-named
> lookups
>   for any file with a creation password (CP)
>   save table only if any prompted questions answered w/correct
> password(s)
> RUNTIME:
> Prompt for any variably-named lookup file w/CP
> -------------------------------------
>       we could augment as follows:
> -------------------------------------
> CREATION:
> Allow user w/hot key to enter one or more filenames to pre-authorize
>   variably-named runtime lookups if evaluated to those files.
>   (clerk prompts for the CPs for those files as they are requested.)
>   (Only in memory at this point.)
> At attempt to save table - check lookups - prompt literally-named
>   lookups for any file with a creation password (CP).
>   If successful - and file tokenized, then encode tok with files
>   that were requested and pre-authorized in dialog above.
> RUNTIME:
> Prompt variably-named lookups for creation password IF it has not
>   been pre-authorized and encoded in the tok.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> Bruce Easton
> STN, Inc.
> 

The only piece necessary is that this be an encrypted file similar to
processing tables so that it is not readable or editable using a text
editor.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
rkreiss at gccconsulting.net