Del,

>Is there a simple way to change a user's privileges by changing their role temporarily without making changes to the UserRoles table?
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>For example, a user might need edit privileges only when working on something they submitted to the database, but not for information others have entered.

You could create a subclass of mmSecurityManager and create a list of security "exceptions" which you could dynamically configure at run time. You could then override the GetAccessLevel() method and have it check this security exceptions list before calling the default base class method.

Regards,