> My only real complaint was that I had set 'PasswordRemember' to
> true, and expected to run the program at a remote site - which
> it did not - and I had a short panic while I tried to get that
> site running again. Fortunately it was not a critical site.

I agree that the property is misleading. The "fix" I was considering
was to deprecate PasswordRemembered and replace it with a
PasswordStorage enumerated property, with options along the lines
of...

psNone = password not saved (default)
psUser = same as now with PasswordRemembered=true
psMachine = like psUser but stored in LOCAL_MACHINE settings
psStatic = password encrypted with static key value
(same for all installations)
psPlain = password stored as plain text

Probably psStatic and psPlain are redundant, one or the other would be
sufficient but what the heck.

Do you think something like this would work and make it clearer as to
what is happening?

It should be possible to setup so that existing apps using
PasswordRemembered would automatically load with
PasswordStorage=psUser and so not break anything by introducing this
change.


Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing