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Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-4328:
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My problem with (1) is that it would leave some functionality undocumented, and
the code will probably live forever because no one understands why it's there.
If we choose (1) I feel that we should also remove the code that implements it,
but that could cause backward compatibility issues.
You mentioned that the alternative way to change the boot password may also
have escaping issues, so I don't quite see why one should be left in the
documentation and the other one removed.
Changing the password by using the newBootPassword attribute requires that the
database is not booted. Doesn't that make it vulnerable to race conditions if
others connect the database while we're attempting to change the boot password?
In that case using the set-property method might be preferable.
> The Developer's Guide falsely claims that you can use
> SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_SET_DATABASE_PROPERTY to change the boot password on an
> encrypted database.
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>
> Key: DERBY-4328
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4328
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Documentation
> Reporter: Rick Hillegas
> Assignee: Rick Hillegas
> Fix For: 10.5.3.0
>
> Attachments: derby-4328-01-aa-removeFalseReencryptionClaim.diff
>
>
> This claim is made in the section titled 'Changing the boot password'. If you
> try to run the example, you get this error:
> CALL SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_SET_DATABASE_PROPERTY( 'bootPassword', 'Thursday' ,
> 'Saturday');
> ERROR 42Y03: 'SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_SET_DATABASE_PROPERTY' is not recognized as a
> function or procedure.
> The correct way to change the boot password is documented earlier on in the
> section titled 'Encrypting databases with a new boot password'. We should
> remove the section titled 'Changing the boot password'.
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