Database Password

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Bruce Mogayzel

I want to set the Database password, and then have an AutoExec Macro or Start-
up Form launch and automatically (behind the scenes) pass the Database
password so that the user does not have to know the passwood (invisable) and
then he can just select tasks from a menu.

How can I do that? Thanks

Bruce
 
What's the point of a password which is automatically set? That seems to me
the same as no password.

Passwords are asked for before you enter the program. Therefore, it's a bit
late to do something with them within the program.

With user-level security, you can set the password on the command line (/User
/Pwd, lookup Startup command line options), but I don't know of a way with the
Database Password.

Database password only lets you in or out, if you just want to let them in
then why bother :-) If you want different users to have different options in
the program, ahhh that's different use user-level security, this lets you have
different users allowed different tasks. (if you set your forms up that way),
and you can bypass user/password entry on a given PC as above!
Chris
 
Bruce said:
I want to set the Database password, and then have an AutoExec Macro
or Start- up Form launch and automatically (behind the scenes) pass
the Database password so that the user does not have to know the
passwood (invisable) and then he can just select tasks from a menu.

How can I do that? Thanks

Bruce
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You can't. The password will be asked for before the file has a chance to run
any code or macro.

The database password is SO easily hacked that I wouldn't even bother with it.
With User Level Security you could first open a non-secured file whose only job
is to open the secured one and it could pass the proper workgroup file, user
name, and password as command line arguments and then close itself. I don't
think you can supply the simple file password as a command line argument.
 
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