access security vb

[hireagenius via AccessMonster.com]

Hello ,
Thanks to many on this forum, I have completed setting up security. This
will probably be final question regarding security.

If a person knows Access, specifically visual basic, can they gain security
info that they should not have as a regular user? Is there a way to
circumvent the security by using any Visual Basic code?
Thanks again for all the help I have received from many of you.

Charlie

 

[TC]

As far as I know, there are no well-known ways to break Access security
using normal VB[A] code.

However, there are products on the web that will "reverse engineer" the
passwords from a workgroup information file.

So any person, using one of those products, can log on to the database
as any authorized user of that database.

HTH,
TC (MVP Access)
http://tc2.atspace.com

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

If you've set up security correctly, using VB code will not give them access
to the data.

Note, however, that there are 3rd party products and services that
specialize in cracking Access security. The fact that the users are capable
of accessing the physical file where the data is stored means that it's not
possible to make it hacker-proof. Realistically, security in Access is like
a lock on a door. It's going to keep the honest people out, but a determined
individual is going to be able to get in somehow.

 

[Guest]

using standard vb code, you can get a list of the users from the
workgroup in use.

Which you can use for 'social engineering' attempts on the passwords.

Which is why most networks do not display a list of network users.

But since security in Access is technically weak, anyone who seriously
wanted to break it would use a technical crack, rather than 'social
engineering'.

(david)