One more idea for encrypting the password. Create your own function to change the password of any length, into say, a 10 digit number using a combination of the username and password. If you are clever, you won't be able to decrypt it, without a lot of effort. This is a one way encryption so you can't tell the user what their password is if they forget and will have to reset it if they do. All user names and passwords would have to be run through the function first and compared to the number stored in the database to determine if it is valid.



>I am using a password file that stores usernames and passwords to log into the system. Of course, I use the * on the form when the user types in their password, but what is to prevent someone who may know enough about accessing the password database file from knowing what everyone's passwords are? Is there any way to password protect a table from being accessed or anything like that, where at times when it is needed only certain people have access to view/change records in the table, but restrict everyone else from viewing/changing it?
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