Reset an Access Password

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Is there a way, as an Admin, to reset a user's password without knowing their
old password? At my company, people tend to forget things like passwords a
lot.

The only way I can think of is to read in all their permissions, delete the
user, then re-add them and re-assign permissions, but this seems somewhat
dangerous.

Thanks!
 
CathyJ said:
Is there a way, as an Admin, to reset a user's password without knowing their
old password? At my company, people tend to forget things like passwords a
lot.

The only way I can think of is to read in all their permissions, delete the
user, then re-add them and re-assign permissions, but this seems somewhat
dangerous.

Thanks!
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Search the online help for the "NewPassword" method. You should find a
code example that demonstrates how to achieve this.

HTH
Matthias Kläy
 
Is there a way, as an Admin, to reset a user's password without
knowing their old password?
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Yes: in fact, that's all you can do. It's not possible to read the old one
at all. Use the Access GUI, or write a subroutine in vba to locate the User
object. Unusually, it's fairly well documented in the help files.


HTH

Tim F
 
Thanks, I will do it that way.

I thought you were supposed to be notified if someone responded to your
posting? Maybe it all goes to Spam . . . .
 
Sorry to seem thick here . . . .

Aren't the arguments of NewPassword oldpassword, newpassword? If I don't
know oldpassword, how do I make it work? I tried leaving it blank, but I get
an "Argument Not Optional" error.

Could you please send me a link to the online help that you think applies? I
can't find anything useful.

TFYH,
Cathy
 
I thought you were supposed to be notified if someone responded to your
posting? Maybe it all goes to Spam . . . .
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As far as I know, you just come and look at the messages. My newsreader
flags any threads that I have contributed to.

There is some kind of html interface for the usenet groups, but to me that
is like crippling a perfectly good protocol by making a man walk ahead of
it waving a red flag.

B Wishes


Tim F
 
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