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DBF Table Security
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From
25/01/2007 13:41:29
 
 
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25/01/2007 13:30:35
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01189289
Message ID:
01189330
Views:
11
>>Can you just disallow users to install/use Foxpro on their machines? This way they will be able to make changes through your code only.
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>>Not really. Savvy users can always get to it through other means (Excel comes to mind). Only solution is encryption (e.g. Cryptor), or migrating DBFs to SQL Server or similar.
>
>Really savvy users would just grab a gun and go to rob the nearest bank. How would you prevent it with SQL-Server?


The DBA can lock access down to whomever, giving acces for example to your program. Then of course you'd have to worry about the DBA's honesty. {g}


Alex Feldstein, MCP, Microsoft MVP
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