Password Setting Bug?

[fmow]

I am setting up user accounts for my db and I am quite perplexed as to why when creating a new user and setting a password for them, upon reopening the user details, fm instead of retaining the password (as an x number of dots) it adds several characters to it. I guess I should be doing something considerably wrong to get this behaviour?

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Not at all.  By design, there is no correlation between the password and the obfuscation shown on the screen. Additionally, the password is not stored in the file.

 

Steven

[fmow]

Hi Mr. Blackwell. Many thanks for this. Where are passwords stored?

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Passwords are not stored anywhere in the file.  FileMaker Pro uses a hashing process in lieu of password storage.

 

Steven