Enhanced Password Protection

Password protection was made more rigorous at AVEVA Hull and Outfitting 12.0.SP5. Additional checks have been at this release introduced to trap potential error conditions.

A confirmation dialog, as shown below, warns if a user is created with no password:

A warning is also given, when using the Generate Script dialog, if the password for logging in to the project is not correct. An incorrect password could cause an invalid password error when the script is later executed.

In addition to the ConfirmID(), method on the SESSION object, an analogous method has been added to the USER object. This method also takes a string as argument: the suggested password text with leading ‘/’ character. It returns a boolean value that determines whether the password is correct for the specified user. Example:

!u = object USER(|MYUSER|)

if !u.ConfirmID( |/SESAME| ) then $*…