Re: database password

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 19:08:56 +0200
Message-ID: <f2i26a$ehn$1@news5.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

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sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl schreef:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007 07:38:28 +0200, Frank van Bortel
> <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>

>> That's the reason why 'you cannot change the password on that account':
>> all the scripts that rely on it...

>
> Yeah sure, have the bugger leave and you are forced to change all your
> scripts. Been there before.
> Or you have a hardcoded password in your Pro*Pascal programs, and need
> to recompile all of them to change the password.
>
> That is the moment you start to use external authentication.
>

But that is soooo insecure. :)
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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
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