[AccessD] POLL: Access Security

Make me a 1.5.  We use it all the time in our apps and I've had the
experience in the past of locking one of my own apps down so tight I
couldn't get back in.  Fortunately, I had a backup ... And installed a
backdoor  using a command line argument after that. <G>  I see no reason
to reinvent security on my own when MS has provided an acceptable method
already.  Is it totally secure?  No, is anything?

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:00 PM
To: AccessD
Subject: [AccessD] POLL: Access Security


I'd like to take a poll regarding your knowledge of Access' built-in
security. By security I do NOT mean the database properties, rather
using workgroups / users to secure forms, tables, queries etc.

Anyone interested in participating please choose one of the following:

1) I am an Access security guru.  I can quickly and easily lock a
database down so tight I can't even get back in.  No help / books
needed.
2) I am fluent with Access security.  I can get the job done but it
definitely takes a few hours.  I probably won't need the help / books.
3) I have done Access Security on at least one real paying project.  I
would need help / books to do it again.
4) I have heard about Access Security, read about it, managed to shoot a
toe off, maybe played around with it, but I am confident I could get the
job done.  Books / help definitly needed.
5) Access has built in security?  What is this and where would I go to
learn it?  Why haven't I ever seen these books / help?

If you would please just select a number and reply I would appreciate
it.

As for myself, I must admit I rate a solid 4.  No client has ever been
willing to pay for it and I have always had other things to learn / do
so I just never did it (for real).

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com


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