Using the Password Tab in GUImaint

To Password Protect a Dataset

• Back on the Description tab, make sure "Password req'd" is checked
• On the Password tab
  • Choose from the Login names in the dropdown box
  • Type the data set ID into the text box of the password page
  • Click on the Post button
  • Click on the Save button
  • That data set now has the password used with that login name
    • Passwords are associated with Login names
    • Each Login name has its own password

To Edit the Login Names and Passwords (rarely done)

• Click on the toggle button which is labeled "Click Twice to Edit Login/Password"
  • if not used before, the first time wakes it up
  • subsequent clicks toggle the button state
• Clicking on a name from the dropdown box in the Login name area directly above will change the Login and Password displayed in the text areas of the Password section
• Clicking in either the Login Name or Password text box will give the focus to the data_passwd table, and activate the boxes on the Navigation Tool Bar to ditto, post, save, etc.
• If you change the displayed Login or Password, you are "Updating"
  • If Updating, the original Login and/or Password are changed
  • If the Login Name is changed, the data sets using that login name will no longer be accessible until each is linked to the new login name
  • An updated or newly created login name will not be visible in the Login Name dropdown box until the GUImaint is restarted
• Run /usr/local/codiac/bin/codiac_pswds from the command line on ingest
  • it is necessary to run codiac_pswds after changes in the passwords database table (data_passwd)
  • this encrypts the new password.
  • it is not necessary to run codiac_pswds after associating a dataset with an already existing Login Name