>We have had some interesting security concerns come up from our clients recently. We run with a VFP backend and in one case we had a client delete a folder with all of our data files. We have also had Auditors cite our clients because of the ease at modifying dbf files. Any thoughts on how to improve file security (short of going to SQL server, I'm too old for that)?


You can let Your application impersonate another user. A user who ist the only person besides the Admin who has rights on the folder and/or tables. In this case only the application can modify, delete or even read the data. see my notes in thread #944424 from yesterday

HTH