Just checking back on a few posts and nobody made any comment on this one - any ideas anyone?
Thanks & regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alastair Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "R:Base ListServer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:39 PM Subject: User Name / Network ID / Password / CFG File > Hi all, I'm confused - nothing new there, I hear you all mumble <g>: > > Could somebody please explain - as simply as possible - the relationship > between these R:Base "names": > > NAME in the RBASE.CFG file - which seems to return NETWORK NAME with SHOW > NAME > > USER which seems to return USER ID with SHOW USER > > OWNER NAME which doesn't seem to need a password. For instance: > CREATE SCHEMA AUTHOR DBNAME OWNER_NAME > > seems to use OWNER_NAME as a password so that _if_ that name is secret the > DB is secure. > > > In the past, before SET USER had a password option, the user name was, > effectively, the password. But now in a Multi-User situation does every USER > ID have to be different even if the NETWORK NAME is different? > > In other words, can a group of users have a single user name without having > separate passwords and more than one gain access to the same database? > > If so, what name, if any should go in the single RBASE.CFG file? > > > This is following on from Razzak's reply to JM Gratias on 30/05/2002 about > running two copies of R:Base on a single PC. All that appears to be > different in Razzak's method is the SET NAME command before the application > is run so, it seems to me, that if I have a login system that knows my USER > ID then I ought to be able to SET NAME based on that knowledge and run as > many copies of R:Base as the PC can handle with different users. > > Currently this fails with one user getting access and the other failing with > an error message about the database being in single user mode even though > multi is set to on. I suspect that this is due to the same user id being > used for both sessions. However, I want owner access in both cases... > > Thanks in advance for any light that anyone can shed, > Regards, > Alastair. > > ---------------------------------- > A D B Burr, > St. Albans, UK. > ---------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------- > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
