How do you delete or remove a password? (AREV Specific)
At 13 JUL 2000 03:35:10PM Lambda wrote:
Once you use the PASSWORD command to create a password, how do you remove it?
I tried to remove it by changing the password to nothing. It won't ask me to re-enter the new password. It just goes back to TCL and ignores my command!
I also tried to remove it from the file SYSENV. I couldn't find the file.
Thanks for your help.
Lambda
At 13 JUL 2000 03:52PM Don Miller - C3 Inc. wrote:
If you can get into the SYSPROG account you can enter the SYSTEM table for the Account / User and clear the password entry (which is encrypted). Use Ctrl+L to clear the line and press F9. By the way, make a backup copy of the REVnnnnn.LK / OV which correspond to the SYSTEM table in the REVBOOT volume before you do this.
Don Miller
C3 Inc.
At 13 JUL 2000 04:23PM Warren wrote:
Be sure to use the Secure User/Account entry windows as the user and account records in the SYSTEM file use a check sum to determine if they've been compromised.
Using the normal editor or a RBasic program will not update the check sum.
At 13 JUL 2000 05:57PM Lambda wrote:
Why isn't there an easy way to remove a password?!?
There should be a question or command to do this.
I'll try the way suggested.
At 13 JUL 2000 06:12PM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com" onMouseOver=window.status=Click here to visit our web site?';return(true)]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
Because if there was unscrupulous people would walk up to their colleague's wokstation when unattended for a moment and change the password and then hack the application later.
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At 13 JUL 2000 10:38PM Eric Emu wrote:
Piet Hein, Danish mathematician and one-time REVG programmer, put it quite succinctly:
As things so very often are
Intelligence won't get you far
So be glad you've got more sense
Than you've got intelligence
At 14 JUL 2000 01:33AM Lambda wrote:
You would have to know the password first in order to change or remove it. At least that's the way it should work.
The way I was told to remove the password could be done by anyone.
Now the unscrupulous people don't have to wait around for us to leave our desks!
At 14 JUL 2000 10:06AM Matt Sorrell wrote:
Actually, the way you were told to do it requires access to the SYSPROG account. There are much more devious things that can be done from this account than just blank an user password.
msorrel@greyhound.com
At 14 JUL 2000 08:34PM Eric Emu wrote:
OK Matt, like what did you have in mind?
Eric
At 15 JUL 2000 03:27AM Lambda wrote:
You are soooo right!