[AccessD] Access Lockdown

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Mon May 23 14:03:57 CDT 2011


I'm aware of that technique.  

It's actually a lot easier to do that sort of thing using AutoIt. That is exactly what AutoIt was 
designed for and you don't need to use API messages to do it.   

But it's still a kludge. :-)

-- 
Stuart

On 23 May 2011 at 9:22, jwcolby wrote:

> I am hot on the trail for code to do this.
> 
> http://www.standards.com/Office/SetVBAProjectPassword.html
> 
> It requires manipulating windows to get the dialog as it pops up and
> then pushing data to that and clicking on things in the dialog. 
> Actually cool stuff to know.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> On 5/23/2011 12:12 AM, Stuart McLachlan wrote:
> > I don't think so.  I've never come across anything that can do that,
> >
> > The actual Password can be *changed* from an external application. 
> > I have a "cracker" application which does exactly that
> >
> > http://www.systoolsgroup.com/vba-password-remover.html.
> >
> > It doesn't "remove" VBA passwords, it resets them to a standard
> > password (possibly just be writing a different hash value somewhere
> > in the .mdb)  so that you can go in and unset it yourself after
> > entering the new password.   Based on the fact that similar
> > utilities work in the same way,  I'd guess that setting/unsetting a
> > PW is a far more difficult task.
> >
> >
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