>How can I hide a password into a field
>in a .dbf field, so that no one can
>see it ?

You could use SYS(2007) - this will return a checksum value. You won't be able to regenerate the password from the checksum value but it will *hide* it. Whenever you validate, use SYS(2007) - make sure you use the same length string each time - spaces on end make a difference to the value.