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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Thus it was written in the epistle of Jeff Vance,
> DB 7. "Don't require maintenance word if none specified"  Relative effort:
Low
>
> Descr: don't requrie an IMAGE maintenance word if a maintenance word was not
> specified.

Just a quick question here.  I'm not used to using maintenance words (we don't
have them around here).  As I understood it, the maintenance word was a
backdoor, allowing database changes when you aren't creator.  As such, not
having one implied that changes can only be made as creator.  Does this mean
that if I don't run around and sent maintenance words on all my DB's they would
suddenly be open for creator-only type changes by anybody?

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators
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                                           -- Burke, Edmund
Reflections on the Revolution in France.

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