it's "SYS_PASSWORD" not "SYS_PASSWORDS" just do list SYS% to list all the system tables.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Esbjörn Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 7:03 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: SYS_PASSWORDS > Hi all > > A. Razzak Memon wrote: >> Use PACK PASSWORD command to clean out bogus rows from SYS_PASSWORDS table. > > This was interesting, as was the differing views on grants versus no grants. > I just checked one of my databases - there was NO sys_passwords table! > In this db there is an owner and grants to a number of users. So I did a > "list access for .." one of the users > and noticed some incomplete rows in the list. I then did a "pack password" - > got no change of size for any of > the db files but the incomplete rows were gone when I did a new "list access > for ..". > > We handle this database with separate "SET USER .." and "CONNECT dbname" and > never use > "CONNECT dbname IDENTIFIED BY username password". I have the impression that > there are > two different internal mechanisms handling these security functions. > > I would like to know more about these differences. > > Esbjorn > > >

