[AccessD] Unlock/Unprotect VBA Project

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sun May 6 22:05:36 CDT 2018


If you are that concerned about application security, you shouldn't be storing passwords at 
all.  Store a cryptographic hash and then compare the hash of the entered password to the 
stored hash.  Same with usernames.

On 6 May 2018 at 21:33, Bill Benson wrote:

> I did find a means of hiding all connection strings, passwords, etc in
> a userform control's text or tag properties. It is virtually
> impossible to force that userform into a loaded state to read those
> crucial strings, from an external workbook, unless I the author of the
> protected workbook was foolish enough to have a public sub that loaded
> them, therefore it was virtually impossible to get access to that
> protected information.



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