>>>>I decided to test the security system I uploaded yesterday and discovered a bug within it. I have removed this bug and have sent the new file to Michel to be uploaded. I want to apologize in advance for the problems I may have caused and any inconvenience I have caused.
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>>>>Sincerely,
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>>>Bill,
>>>I profit to ask you some questions.
>>>I've downloaded your security system, in order to get ideas. Is the first time i think on this. I've browsed the 'users' table and see that is impossible to change nor view values in fields. This is a explendid thing, but i don't know how you has done it. Can you help me ?
>>>Thanks in advance. Carlos.
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>>If you open the table designer you will see that I put an inputmask of '*' on those fields.
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>yes, I know, thanks. But not only i can't see the value: i can't write in the field in a browse window. Why?

My best guess is that it expects you to put in asterisks when you want to add or edit records. Perhaps a undocumented feature?