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How to prevent user from copying DBF files.
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08/02/2005 15:01:49
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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08/02/2005 14:59:04
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00984867
Message ID:
00984871
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If you need this kind of security, you should consider a C/S solution.

>The capacity of memory sticks and such is growing everyday. They make it very easy for a user to copy entire files off the network and walk off with them.
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>Is there anyway to prevent this?
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>Assume that the user needs read/write access when they use the application.
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>This would be a different way to express the question:
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>Can I specify that only one program has read/write access to the files unless the user has sufficiently high rights? (I still need to copy the files from time to time.)
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>Ummm... Two programs (system backup program, etc.)
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>Peter
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