RE: [NF] Password instructions from my local credit union

I worked for 10+ years in a big AU bank. They passed passwords between systems in essentially clear text (in fact they were encrypted but everyman and his dog knew or had easy access to the encryption key) - bottom line though is the passwords were stored in a manner that could very easily be

Re: Win10 upgrades, was: Brexit, was: Re: [NF] Just like VFP...

On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:11:35 -0500, Mike Copeland wrote: >Ted Roche wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: >>> I tried downloading and >>> burning a DVD to use for the upgrades, and it always asks for a Registration >>> Key even when

Re: Rox Seibert

On 2016-06-28 16:19, Stephen Russell wrote: Somehow I thought she started doing java dev or php & javascript but that was a long time ago. I remember her at Whilfest as Cat in the Hat. Yep. I think she won Best Speaker/Session or something like that too. Heard she got a job with Jim

Re: Rox Seibert

Somehow I thought she started doing java dev or php & javascript but that was a long time ago. I remember her at Whilfest as Cat in the Hat. On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:08 PM, < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > On 2016-06-28 15:48, Michael Glassman wrote: > >> Roxanne's last

RE: Rox Seibert

On 2016-06-28 15:48, Michael Glassman wrote: Roxanne's last post appears to have been on 8/25/06. She was quite active on UT from 1997 to 2001, but so much after that. https://www.universalthread.com/List.aspx?ID=251=11887 I knew her back in the early 2000s when I started and ran the

Re: VFP Undocumented functions/clauses

On 2016-06-27 04:13, Bill Anderson wrote: Koen, From the home page select Categories, then UndocumentedVFPFunctions. Bill Anderson http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~CategoryUndocumentedVFPFunctions ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

RE: Rox Seibert

Roxanne's last post appears to have been on 8/25/06. She was quite active on UT from 1997 to 2001, but so much after that. https://www.universalthread.com/List.aspx?ID=251=11887 Mike -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fernando D.

Re: [NF] Password instructions from my local credit union

On 2016-06-28 12:44, Paul Hill wrote: In all seriousness you should NOT be storing the password in any form, but instead a salted hash of the password. Agreed! So glad I retooled mine for FabNet years ago with a salted hashed encrypted value. Big thanks to this list for the guidance. I

Re: [NF] Password instructions from my local credit union

Its an old foxbase+ system and nobody is allowed to touch it. On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:16 AM, < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > "Passwords must not contain all letters or numbers, and be at least 6 > characters and no more than 10 characters long" > > WHY I just

Re: Win10 upgrades, was: Brexit, was: Re: [NF] Just like VFP...

Ted Roche wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: I tried downloading and burning a DVD to use for the upgrades, and it always asks for a Registration Key even when updating a valid installation. After it rejected 5 different keys, three brand new and had

Re: Rox Seibert

Yes, it is active. https://www.universalthread.com 2016-06-28 18:47 GMT+02:00 : > If any of you are on the Universal Thread, can you tell me if she's still > active on there? > > tia, > --Mike > > On 2016-06-22 13:42,

Re: [NF] Password instructions from my local credit union

You exposed my knee jerk response to the issue. actually we do that. I started doing that in the '90s (in Foxpro/DOS) when I found that is what linux does! On 06/28/2016 09:44 AM, Paul Hill wrote: On 28 June 2016 at 17:26, John R. Sowden wrote: They may be

Re: [NF] Password instructions from my local credit union

On 28 June 2016 at 17:26, John R. Sowden wrote: > They may be using a fixed length field limited to 10 characters. Probably running on a COBOL database! In all seriousness you should NOT be storing the password in any form, but instead a salted hash of the password.

Re: Rox Seibert

If any of you are on the Universal Thread, can you tell me if she's still active on there? tia, --Mike On 2016-06-22 13:42, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: Bill's mentioning the FoxWiki being offline for 4 days made me think of some yesteryear prominent Fox folks who seemed

Re: [NF] Password instructions from my local credit union

They may be using a fixed length field limited to 10 characters. Of course if you entered > 10 they would give you an error instead of truncating the added characters. Then they would test to make sure the count is > 5 for added security. John On 06/28/2016 09:13 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:

Re: [NF] Password instructions from my local credit union

Yeah I saw something similar recently and thought the same. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 28 Jun 2016, at 05:16 PM, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: > "Passwords must not contain all letters or numbers, and be at least 6 > characters and no

[NF] Password instructions from my local credit union

"Passwords must not contain all letters or numbers, and be at least 6 characters and no more than 10 characters long" WHY I just don't understand how here in 2016, we're limited to 10 characters. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Win10 upgrades, was: Brexit, was: Re: [NF] Just like VFP...

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: > > I tried downloading and > burning a DVD to use for the upgrades, and it always asks for a Registration > Key even when updating a valid installation. After it rejected 5 different > keys, three brand new and had never

Re: [NF] Just like VFP...

There may be, but I'm not using AD and these are all actively-being-used Win7Pro systems. Each one has some slight variation, like the printer(s) that are installed, etc. Mike Copeland Alan Bourke wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2016, at 08:56 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Only 180+ systems left to

Re: [NF] Just like VFP...

On Fri, 24 Jun 2016, at 08:56 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: > Only 180+ systems left to go... No way to automate this? Microsoft Deployment Toolkit etc? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com