Passwords

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sun Sep 19 17:23:32 EDT 2010


Hi, Jim,  I'm glad you got your password question solved.

For everyone:  If psssword protection is important, use 4.0.

Dar Scott



On May 21, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Jim Bufalini wrote:

> Richard,
>
>> You've probably already done this, but to be safe may I ask if you
>> first
>> set the passkey of the stack to the current password before  
>> attempting
>> to change the password itself?
>>
>> I've encountered a few issues with the change to the more-secure  
>> method
>> of password protection used in v4.0, but IIRC what you describe here
>> should work as long as you have access to change the password,  
>> provided
>> by first setting the passkey.
>
> No I didn't and of course that's the answer, otherwise you could  
> just take a
> password protected stack and set its password to empty without  
> knowing the
> password. ;-)
>
> What was throwing me off is the lock symbol still appeared in the
> Application Browser. So you have to set the passkey. Set the  
> password to
> empty. Save the stack and then Refresh the Application Browser. Thanks
> Richard!
>
> Aloha from Hawaii,
>
> Jim Bufalini
>
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