[AccessD] Access Security mess - Resolved rather than solved

Andy Lacey andy at minstersystems.co.uk
Mon Mar 29 14:50:29 CDT 2010


And in case anyone thinks I've come over all formal the webmail client I
have to use from work insists on calling me Andrew and I can't see how to
alter it. So it's just webmail and my mother who call me that!

Andy

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Lacey
Sent: 29 March 2010 16:04
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access Security mess - Resolved rather than solved


Panic over, user's fixed it himself.

Andy




On 29 March 2010 at 13:17 Andrew Lacey <andy at minstersystems.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi folks, help please.
> I know ****** all about Access workgroup security and have been handed a
> problem
> with it. Great.
> The situation is that this db has several users who can access it fine,
but
> now
> they need someone else to do so. It seems like only an Admin user can do
that
> but I don't know, and they don't know, how to log on as Admin. Is it done
with
> a
> command-line switch? If so can someone spell that out for me? Then the
next
> issue is going to be that no-one knows the admin password. What can I do
about
> that? Anyone got/know a pw cracker for this situation?
> Oh and there's this. The site has migrated to a different domain. As I
say,
> that
> hasn't stopped the users using the db, but might this have repercussions
on
> the
> security or is Access security independent of all that? Just though I
should
> mention it.
> Help would be greatly appreciated.
> Andy
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