Re: the ElkM1 "RP access code": a sham?

[Leo <leoPhx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That explains it! I would have never thought of it.
Thank you for your insight.

On 10 Oct 2006 18:29:32 -0700, epi_nc@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
>A most excellent question.  The answer is, it is not a sham.  It is
>functional.  It protects some other party from connecting to the M1 so
>long as they don't know the RP Code.  If you were to go to a different
>computer - one that had never been used to connect to the panel, and
>enter some random code, it would not connect.  Why does yours?  Good
>question.  Here's how it works:
>
>ElkRP remembers the last RP Access code used to connect to the control.
> If you change the code in ElkRP, then connect to the control, ElkRP
>tries the new code which gets rejected.  It then tries the last known
>good code, which will likely work.  If it works, ElkRP programs the new
>code into the panel and saves it to the database.
>
>If someone else tries to connect to the control, but they don't have a
>copy of your database or the account in the database, they'll have one
>million codes to try!
>
>I hope this clears it up.
>
>
>Leo wrote:
>> I am really wondering what the purpose/ functionality is of the ElkM1
>> "RP access code". It appears to have NO functionality, and that
>> whatever it is, the M1 will recognize it as valid. I am doing this
>> type of test:
>>
>>
>> Using the ElkRP remote programming tool from a remote location, I
>> start off connecting to the M1 as usual; then I disconnect, and change
>> the "RP access code"; then I try to connect again, and ... the M1 lets
>> me! What's going on? There must be something I don't understand with
>> the "RP access code".
>>
>> TIA. Leo