>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,

There is nothing you can do to prevent any of this. What is to stop anyone from opening the DBF in a text editor and changing data?