Yep.. Check my other missive that led to the error of my ways.  Yesterday 
wasn't my finest.

Thanks James,

Mike


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Bentley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:14 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: SYS_PASSWORDS


> Mike,
>
> To the best of my knowledge you cannot list the SYS_PASSWORDS
> (note this is correct name) table it is a hidden system table
> and is undocumented)  The same exists for SYS_COMPUTED table.
>
> With that said if you output the AUTOCHK FULL command you can
> see the following:
>  Examining table SYS_COMPUTED
>      Index:         5
>      Column:        SYS_COLUMN_ID
>      Column:        SYS_DATA_TYPE
>      Column:        SYS_PCODE
>      Column:        SYS_COLUMN_LIST
>      Column:        SYS_ALGEBRA_DATA
>
>   Examining table SYS_PASSWORDS
>      Index:         6
>      Column:        SYS_GRANTEE
>      Column:        SYS_TABLE_ID
>      Column:        SYS_PERM
>      Column:        SYS_NUM_COLUMNS
>      Column:        SYS_RELATIVE_IDS
>      Column:        SYS_GRANTOR
>      Column:        SYS_FLAGS
>
> These two tables to not show in a "LIST TABLES SYS%" command.
>
>
> --- MikeB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> it's "SYS_PASSWORD"     not     "SYS_PASSWORDS"
>>
>> just do list SYS% to list all the system tables.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Esbjörn Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 7:03 PM
>> Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: SYS_PASSWORDS
>>
>>
>> > Hi all
>> >
>> > A. Razzak Memon wrote:
>> >> Use PACK PASSWORD command to clean out bogus rows from
>> SYS_PASSWORDS table.
>> >
>> > This was interesting, as was the differing views on grants
>> versus no grants.
>> > I just checked one of my databases - there was NO
>> sys_passwords table!
>> > In this db there is an owner and grants to a number of
>> users. So I did a
>> > "list access for .." one of the users
>> > and noticed some incomplete rows in the list. I then did a
>> "pack password" -
>> > got no change of size for any of
>> > the db files but the incomplete rows were gone when I did a
>> new "list access
>> > for ..".
>> >
>> > We handle this database with separate "SET USER .." and
>> "CONNECT dbname" and
>> > never use
>> > "CONNECT dbname IDENTIFIED BY username password".  I have
>> the impression that
>> > there are
>> > two different internal mechanisms handling these security
>> functions.
>> >
>> > I would like to know more about these differences.
>> >
>> > Esbjorn
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Jim Bentley
> American Celiac Society
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> tel: 1-504-737-3293
>
>
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