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09/11/2000 06:21:10
 
 
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08/11/2000 22:42:42
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00439532
Message ID:
00439577
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>Can anyone tell me how to secure the password of users.
>
>I store the user password in a table. And vfp table are quite easy to open. Anyone have some DBASE knowledge can open and view it.
>
>So anyone have any suggestion?

To begin with, encrypt the password. So the casual dBase user will see garbage in the password field. I'm not saying that will give unbreakable security but it will save you from the unsophisticated hacker.


Alex Feldstein, MCP, Microsoft MVP
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