The scripts are not set up to deal with new passwords. You have to visit
each file or modify the scripts. For example the Guest account's passwords
are totally broken and the scripts know nothing about the Guest account.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Cooler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 9:23 PM
> To: Walt Daniels
> Cc: ebase-Support
> Subject: Re: [SUPPORT] New Passwords Not Working
>
>
> Yes, Walt, I changed the default passwords by going through the "Admin"
> screen just as the manual indicates. As I said, after doing this
> I can open
> the files with no problem. It's only when I create NEW passwords that
> problems arise in trying to open the files.
>
> Colin
>
> > From: "Walt Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 21:03:52 -0400
> > To: "Colin Cooler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "ebase-Support"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: RE: [SUPPORT] New Passwords Not Working
> >
> > How did you change the passwords? Did you use the script in
> Admin? If not
> > you have to visit every file and change them individually. The script in
> > Admin does it to all of them.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Colin
> >> Cooler
> >> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 12:46 PM
> >> To: ebase-Support
> >> Subject: [SUPPORT] New Passwords Not Working
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm trying to change the default passwords that come with
> v1.02 (Mac) as
> >> well as create some new ones with various privileges. I have
> successfully
> >> changed the default passwords, and can open ebase with these changed
> >> passwords without incident. When I try to create new passwords,
> >> however, I
> >> am not able to open ebase correctly. Here's what happens:
> >>
> >> When I open ebase.102, I enter my new password ("maiden" for example).
> >> Initially, this appears to work, but quickly I am asked to enter
> >> a password
> >> for every file ebase is attempting to open (e.g., "Custom,"
> >> "Help," "Notes,"
> >> "Payments," etc).
> >>
> >> Furthermore, I get an error message saying my new password (i.e.,
> >> "maiden")
> >> is not valid. I have to open all files with my previously
> >> created "master"
> >> password ("yoda" in this case) in order to gain access to the
> home screen,
> >> and even then things don't work quite right (i.e., subsequent password
> >> dialogue boxes will occasionally pop up). If, however, I
> close ebase and
> >> open it again using my master password ("yoda"), everything works fine.
> >>
> >> So, it would appear that one can rename the default passwords
> >> that come with
> >> ebase, but not create new ones. Is this correct? Is there a fix?
> >>
> >> I know the ebase programmers are hard at work on version 2, but
> >> if this is a
> >> systemic problem with verion 1.02, then I would think that it
> >> would call for
> >> a bug fix. I want to convince my local school system that they can
> >> confidently share information with us with no qualms about
> security, but
> >> this will "put a nail in that coffin" (or "lockbox" as Al might
> >> say) if I
> >> can't get ebase security protocols working.
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >> Colin
>
>
