Progress
Results User’s Guide
for UNIX


Sign-on Program/Product Name

Use this option to name the sign-on logo that appears when you start Results. Also use it to add login procedures and change the title on the Results Main Menu.

The sign-on program runs before Results starts. The default program, u-logo.p, displays the Results logo first. You can tailor it to include your own logo, remove the logo, add login procedures, or define shared variables you want to use in User programs.

You can also change the Progress Results title on the Main Menu.

If you want to add password security to Results, you can replace u-logo.p with a program that calls login.p to prompt for user ID and password where necessary (similar to the way prostart.p calls login.p when you start a Progress 4GL session). Results provides a program, called u-login.p, that calls login.p.

When you exit the Administration module, Results performs the startup phase again. If you have a login procedure (such as u-login.p) installed, you see the prompt for user ID and password again. If you use the unmodified login.p that comes with Progress, you can bypass security by pressing END.

Therefore, to protect your package from unauthorized access, do not leave your workstation unattended with the login screen on your monitor. Anyone who presses the END key at this point has full access to the Results system, including the Administration module.

Alternatively, you can enhance the default login.p file so that it does not allow users to use END to bypass login security. For example, you change this line in your login.p file:

login.p
DO ON ENDKEY UNDO, RETURN: /* return if they hit endkey*/ 

to:

login.p
DO ON ENDKEY UNDO, RETRY: /* retry if they hit endkey*? 

You can access this file from the Progress Procedure Editor.


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