[AccessD] Access Lockdown

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon May 23 08:22:33 CDT 2011


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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