[AccessD] Get user name

Log in as Admin, of course!

Charlotte Foust


-----Original Message-----
From: Gustav Brock [mailto:gustav at cactus.dk] 
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 10:20 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Get user name


Hi Ron

Nice!
But how did you expect to ever see that screen again?

/gustav


> Heh. Here's a story for a Friday... not entirely off topic...

> I once put a function into a backend .mdb that checked the logon name 
> of the
> user, and if it wasn't me it put up a bright red screen with yellow
letters 
> that said something like, "Unauthorized Intrusion Detected. You have
attempted 
> to open a database for which you are not authorized. We know who you
are and 
> where you are sitting. Please remain calm and in your seat, security
will be 
> coming for you shortly."

> It was a slow day and I was bored (kind of like right now, actually!) 
> and
> didn't expect anything to ever come of it, or anyone to ever see it
besides me.

> Weeks passed and I forgot about it. Then one day one of the office 
> busybody
> idiots who thought he knew something about databases came rushing over
to me 
> all upset because "they" were coming for him and he didn't know what
he should 
> do... my, that was fun, and I had some fun with him for awhile, too,
before 
> I "covered his tracks for him". <lol> and for weeks after I would
periodically 
> remind him that he owed me a favor too. As far as I know, he never
poked his 
> nose into any of my databases again :)

> Ron

>> I basically just use it as a scare tactic to keep honest people 
>> honest.

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