How to configure the Pharos PC Station Logoff Password to be blank.

Important Notes:

1. The password can not be set to blank from within Pharos Administrator. This is a deliberate limitation of Pharos Administrator.

2. This solution is not supported by Pharos and is implemented at your own risk.

A. First you will need to follow the steps to allow a blank password.

1. Open SQL Enterprise Manager.

2. Go to Databases > Pharos > Tables > PC_Pharos_Stations.

3. Right Click and select 'Design Table'.

4. Scroll down to the row logout_passwd and place a check in the column 'Allow Nulls'.

5. On the top bar, click the icon for Manage Constraints.

6. Scroll down to the constraint CK__pc_pharos__logou__57A801BA.

7. Uncheck the box named 'Enforce Constraint for INSERTs and UPDATEs.

8. Click Close.

9. Click Save. An error should show - just click OK and ignore it.

B. Next are the steps to set a password to blank.

1. Open SQL Query Analyzer.

2. Select the Pharos Database.

3. Run the following query for the necessary Pharos Stations (changing the value of pstn_id for other Stations):

update pc_pharos_stations set logout_passwd = NULL where pstn_id = 1