Dear Sir Madame,

I have read your Knowledge Base article 254372 about disabling the admin
user so that the database cannot be opened if it is copied. What if however a
company employee copies the mdb file and the mdw file and uses his own
profile to use the database and exploit the data for his own benefit.

I have two clients already questioning me about security on their access
applications.

I wanted to ask you if there is a way on a file , folder level to prevent
copying the access files to an external media ? The file and folder access
rights settings of Windows 2000 Server do not seem to be able to do that . I
have a problem convincing my clients that copying the files cannot be
prevented in the first place.

Yours sincerely

P. Scaram

P. Scaram wrote:
> Dear Sir Madame,
>
> I have read your Knowledge Base article 254372 about disabling the
> admin user so that the database cannot be opened if it is copied.
> What if however a company employee copies the mdb file and the mdw
> file and uses his own profile to use the database and exploit the
> data for his own benefit.
[snip]

The only way to protect data from authorized users is threat of termination
and lawsuit.

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> The only way to protect data from authorized users is threat of
> termination
> and lawsuit.

Rick,
I've always found that the threat of the removal of body parts works well
too... <g,d,&r>

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Lynn Trapp
MS Access MVP
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Access Security: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/Security.htm
Jeff Conrad's Big List: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/JCReferences.html

Lynn Trapp wrote:
>> The only way to protect data from authorized users is threat of
>> termination
>> and lawsuit.
>
> Rick,
> I've always found that the threat of the removal of body parts works
> well too... <g,d,&r>

Well sure, if your users have any body parts that are worth while.
(often a problem) :-)


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> Well sure, if your users have any body parts that are worth while.
> (often a problem) :-)


So true :-)

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Lynn Trapp
MS Access MVP
www.ltcomputerdesigns.com
Access Security: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/Security.htm
Jeff Conrad's Big List: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/JCReferences.html