Processing passwords

[Nancy Palmquist]

Jaime Perry wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to remove  processing passwords from prc.* 
> files in batch AND still keep the time/date stamp of the file?   Or 
> better/simpler yet, is there a way to start Filepro so it uses a 
> different fppath file?  This is for a Linux box but could be needed for 
> SCO 5.0.x as well.
>
> Our accounting package was written many moons ago and, at the time, we 
> had a password in the fppath file. This hasn't been a problem until 
> now.  A new client of ours has an existing Filepro system and we are 
> porting our package to their system which has no processing password. 
> This makes coding is a royal pain as we need to vi the prc.*  and remove 
> the password before we can work on it.
>
> We have written and tested a script which will remove the password but 
> we lose the time/date stamp which is important to us for various reasons 
> (I would include the script but it appears to be on the Linux box that 
> crashed the other day).  Our other thought as mentioned above is to have 
> 2 fppaths but I haven't found anything that would indicate this is 
> feasible.  I hope this is clear and any thoughts/suggestions would be 
> appreciated.
>   
Jamie,

You can set the site password in an environment variable if you know the 
proper site password. 
PFSP=password
export PFSP

If the site password is not know but you have a copy of the fppath, you 
could make a script that uses a different fppath than the normal p 
script.  I do that with my vertical packages, so a user will not install 
a filePro product and modify the fppath.

PATHFILE=/etc/default/fppath.old
export PATHFILE

Put that in a p.oldstuff script - copy of p that you use now.  I 
generally make a p script for each application/customer I support and it 
has the correct PFPROG, PFDIR, PFDATA, PFMENU, PFGLOB, PFCONFIG, PFSP, 
etc. for tuning that customers settings correctly for their work.
Keeps my sanity and allows me to support customers on various versions 
and in various settings to insure I do not mess up anything for another 
users.

Nancy

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