Nuno Souto wrote:
> "Volker Hetzer" <volker.hetzer_at_ieee.org> wrote in message
> news:<bd7dbs$ru3$1_at_dackel.pdb.sbs.de>...
>
>> I've heard that db2 passwords sit unencrypted in the first datafile
>> (unbelievable for me, so you want to check this).
>
> In the interest of correctness, given that you post from an
> ieee domain: you didn't "hear". Let me explain: you may
> have misunderstood or misread one of my posts. The DB2 UDB
> administrator password is unencrypted in the first data file
> in UDB v7 for Windows. There is no such thing as
> "db2 unencrypted passwords". That was never written anywhere.
> You may have "heard" it, but from someone else.
Yes, it was your post. The "hearing" was figuratively.
Thanks for correcting me.
Lots of Greetings!
Volker
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While it is a known fact that programmers
never make mistakes, it is still a good idea
to humor the users by checking for errors at
critical points in your program.
-Robert D. Schneider, "Optimizing INFORMIX
Applications"
Received on Tue Jun 24 2003 - 06:18:26 CDT
