RE: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Password for the Protel database files.. ..

["Hood, Jim" <j_hood@drs-sensor.com>]

Just a side note about the password:

The VP in charge of R & D at Protel is of Persian decent.


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [SMTP:marjan@vom.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 05, 2000 2:28 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list proteledausers
> Subject:	Re: [PROTEL EDA USERS]:  Password for the Protel
> database files....
> 
> At 11:40 PM 9/2/00 +1000, djmoore wrote:
> >Here it is.....
> >
> >Manteghulteir
> 
> 
> "ManTiqu l-Tayr," I am sure, is the origin of that. It is the title of
> a 
> classical poem in Persian by Fariduddin Attar, and translates as 
> "Conference of the Birds." (The words of the title are Arabic,
> however.)
> 
> Is Protel trying to tell us something?
> 
> I'm not sure how valuable it is for us to know this password; by
> itself the 
> password allows one to access the Access .ddb form of the same
> information, 
> more or less, that is found in the Windows database .ddb file, plus 
> permissions, etc. One could rather easily damage the Access database
> such 
> that the files within it could no longer be accessed, which is perhaps
> why 
> there is a password.
> 
> It is already possible to directly manipulate Protel data outside the 
> database by simply using the Windows file system.
> 
> A little more dangerously -- and I don't know this for a fact --
> having 
> that password could make it easier to bypass administrative
> restrictions on 
> the data, to edit, for example, read-only libraries.
> 
> marjan@vom.com
> Abdulrahman Lomax
> P.O. Box 690
> El Verano, CA 95433
> 
> 
>