>How do I prevent someone from accessing a .dbf outside of my application? DBF's reside on a Novell server. Anyone with access to the application has access to the .dbf's and could view and alter the .dbf's without going through the application.
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>Is there a property or something that could be set on the .dbf's that would require a password or something like that?
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>Thanks,
Robert,
Any secured data file could be tampered with. Keeping those exceptions apart and assuming this is a VFP dbf belonging to a DBC you could set some dummy update triggers or table rule expression. ie:

*Table.valid
return ( type("something")#"U" )

This is extra simple but also a DBC could be made RO and kept in a secure place (security is limited:).
Cetin