Subject Re: [IBO] Re: Survey: TIB_Connection and Passwords
Author lester@lsces.globalnet.co.uk
> Artur Anjos wrote

> So, my opinion is to keep thinks as they are. They are ok and they
> are documented. The documentation is very explicit. I don't know why
> they are "people to accidently distribute their password". This seen
> like a bug in the application, in the same way no one should deliver
> debug code accindently.

As they are in IBO4 is not really OK. As they were in IBO3.6 worked.

There are two separate problems which a lot of people will never see.

1/ Some systems just do not need passwords, they are a hindrence and so get
switched off. This can be done in program fine so no changes are needed.

2/ Some of us develop accross more than one machine - and it is a pain in
IBO4 to have to reset the password in the development environment just
because you are trying to debug on a slave machine. If you only ever use one
machine you will never see this problem.

We do need a change, the question is should it be the 'bells and whistles'
version. Now that I have been caught twice because I have had to rebuild and
reinstall a development machine, I am thinking that Option 2 may have even
more going for it.

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