I moved my access database and not my user account do not have privelages. However, the group accounts they are linked to have been set-up correctly. Why would my group account privelages be ok, but when I look at each user individually they have no privelages set. I'm confused as to why this would be if the users are in the specific groups I have set-up.
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I've been researching on how to make a database secure. How to create User and Group Accounts on access, I see the step by step instructions and tried it out myself.
I also saw some sites where they give an example of a Login Form and how to create one.
My question is do you need to create both. First create the users and groups to permit or deny access to certain forms and then have a login form?
But would that mean that they'd have to login twice? Once when the database opens because it activates the db security that was created and then login again in the login form that was created?
Also when the user logins in and clicks on the cmd button on the form which opens up another from, frmWorkLog, I have an Employee field. This field I want it to have the user's name entered automatically and "locked". So that info, employee name, is extracted from the user's login. So then the user can only see his or her records only and no one elses.
How would I go about creating that. Hope I made my explanation clear.
Thanks in advance.
Well,
I am currently looking into some of the security aspects of Access, as I am still not yet sure how i'll be designing a new database program, (whether to use Delphi to link to the database or run the database through Access itself) however, I was wanting to look into the security aspect of Access itself as part of my education and decision making process. Now I have deduced (correctly?) that some of the user/group access rights are based on the NT/2k/XP User/Group permissions etc, yet I was wondering if there was a little more to it than that.
In some ways I would like the application (through access or otherwise) to initialize with a logon prompt, that would ask for username and password. The database would internally?? retain the password information for security rights. I'm not sure if i'm thinking this through correctly, so i decided to come here for a few pointers in the right direction.
I'd like to set up internal to the database a set of groups and users with different levels of security. I don't want them based on the XP user account passwords and such, but just an internal database login. This would allow, to some degree, a specific master group to add / remove users from the database, as well as control user access rights to the database internally.
More or less, I want the database itself to be self-contained with all security and access rights, instead of basing them off of some external NT based security information.
So to my actual questions:
Is this possible?
Where would I start looking to set this up?
thanks
Jaeden "Sifo Dyas" al'Raec Ruiner
Hi folks,
I'm new to MS Access and these group forums, and have just taken over an admin role, so please bear with me.
I'd like help with the following. Just nearly had a catastrophe with MS Access, but luckily I've managed to get it back to what it was this morning.
We have a Task Database, set up years ago, which is held on a centralised server, and each person accessing the database has a folder called C:/Task, with a Task.mdb icon, which then links to the main database. This works OK.
I also have a database on another server, which is used for logging problems, and handovers. I've set this up as a One stop shop, with a nice front view, from which I have links to all our databases, and other documents, one of which is the Task Database. This worked fine until this morning.
What I was attempting to do was to setup access to that it recognises the person logging on, and instead of saying Hello Admin, it will say Hello xxx.
I tried setting up a new multi user environment, by updating the Workgroup Administrator. I set up a new .mdw file called system.mdw, which worked on my task database, when I logged on directly.
However, when I log on via the front database, it won't open up the Task Database, as it says that the system.mdw file is in use.
Is it possible to set Access up, so that you can use logon account on more than one DB ???
I've now reset the Workgroup Administrator to point back to WINNT/system.mdw, and it now allows me to access the task db from my front db... So, I'm back to square one.
Please, please can anyone help?
Ta
Karen
I'm making an accounts package.
I've got a query that shows all individual invoices with their total amounts. This works.
But now I'm trying to make graphs so I want show just total amounts combined by customer, for each customer.
So for example if I had 8 customers and they each had 10 invoices each my current query would be returning 80 records.
What I want is 8 records, once for each customer with the summed total for each customer so that I can then graph this.
Firsty, hey all!
I have recently set up a small stock system for my company, and during the last stages i was setting up the user groups and security settings.
Unfortunatly i am now in a position where i cannot modify anything at all! It seems i have set up the 'Admin' group, myself, with no permissions at all. i have one copy of the DB which has a database password, which i know, but no rights to change user privlages nor the ability to open exclusive. There is only one user set up - 'Admin'.
I also have another copy which has no DB pass, but fails to open due to access rights again.
I think i have made a real boo boo. Unfortunatly as all the tables, forms, queries and macros are protected i am unable to even import them into a fresh database without a complete rewrite.
Anyone got any ideas on this?
Thanks
hello,
I have 2 questions:
1) How do I add an icon to a form in ACCESS 2007 (and where do I get it
from)?
2) How and where do I create different user accounts for the data base
(ACCESS 2007)?
Thank you very much
I've created a database and I now need to set up user accounts for access to it, so that I can restrict who has read only and who has write only permissions.
I've done this before and never had a problem! But this time, whenever I try and create a new account, the following message is displayed:
Cannot update. Database or object is read-only.
Can anyone help as to why I get this message and what I can do to stop it! Whilst it does this, I can't create any user accounts.
Any help would be appreciated!!
Thanks in advance
I have a few tables, one of which stores a record of changes made to user accounts, and some of those changes are linked to a "multichange" table for when I have made the same change to multiple accounts.
What I am trying to do is select the change_id from my changes table, with a limit of 1 as I only want one result (it will always be the same) but I am using this query and getting a syntax error telling me I have a missing operator.
Code:
SQL_SELECT = "SELECT change_id from dbo_user_change where username = '" & username & "' AND change_type = 'new account' LIMIT 1"
Set qresults = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset(SQL_SELECT)
Do While Not qresults.EOF
multichange_id = qresults.Fields(1)
qresults.MoveNext
Loop
qresults.Close
I stumbled upon the Option Group function just yesterday and, happy as a clam, I created a group with 2 options in radio button style. I assigned the values to a field called Registration_Type as the 2 options are "Confirmed Registrants" and "Prospective Attendees".
[Great. That part works well. When I look at the table, a 1 or a 2 is in that field so it's great to know how to control accidental ticking of radio buttons (previous 450 records or so didn't have this option group functionality so one might easily tick one of the buttons. So one part of controlling option group I know I can handle via the table itself for now.]
The challenge is how to ensure the user always ticks one or the other ... I went back to the main table and tested the 'required entry' option for the Registration_Type field but forcing an action like this is not ideal in my mind. The usual error message vagueness for the average user is no good and I don't want to limit the user so much.
Is there a way to simply have a popup come up warning that neither radio button was ticked? Perhaps something linked to the form - i.e., maybe "after update"?? I only learned about attaching code to before and after update on controls a couple of days ago, so not sure if this would be best approach.
Just something to let the user know that nothing has been ticked in the option group as that controls in which of 2 reports the data will show up in so any record not ticked might mean a registrant being left out, which would be rather disastrous <g>.
Hi Guys
I am begining to create a IT support database for my company. I have never really needed to use secuirty for the other projects that i have completed but this one is a bit different. i have used the security wizard to create the users and groups but would like to get the basis of the security correct before i go any further.
My question is how do i configure it so that users can only update or change or delete thier own entries apart from me who could alter anything. Do i begin now when i am setting up the tables or is it a bit more complex and would require checks during accessing forms etc.
Any help and advice would be great
Many Thanks
Martin
Hi,
I setup a Security. And different user,
then it creates 2 files: Account.bak, and Secured.mdw
I can open it, but it cannot be opened on another computer, why??
I already setup.
Thanks.
Hey
When i implement user security on my access database at home with user ID's and passwords, i need to take this database and copy it into another computer at work. However, when i open my access database on other computers at work, there is no prompt for a login password or user ID.
Why is this so?
Thanks
Hey, when i set up user security at home on a database and save this database to my USB memory stick, i then take this memory stick to be open on another different computer at the internet cafe. However, when i open the database on another different computer there is no prompt for log in user names and passwords. This is not what i want.
Why is this so?
Thanks for the help
Hello everyone.
Not sure if this is possible...but I hope it is!
I have created user security with limited access for specific groups to certain forms in my database.
However, when a user attempts to open one of the restricted forms a Generic Microsoft Access Message Box opens. Am I able to customise this box so that the box Heading is not "Microsoft Access" and so that the user is not offered the option of "Help"?
Really all I want is a box that says;
"You do not have the permission to open this form."
I only want an "Ok" box as an option (not the "Help" box as well)
Any help would be extremely grateful.
Thanks in advance,
Rob
Hi, I need to add a security feature to my database. Basically I want different users to access the database with different permissions. I want a "basic user" to be only able to access the the forms with their respective default settings. I want an "admin" to obviously be able to access all the content and edit the design. I know I can do this with User-Level Security somehow, but i've tried it and it isn't working like I want it to. DOes anyone know or have any experience with this security feature.
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I was creating a human resource database for a large firm. The number of records ranges from 5000 to 6000. Initially everything went well. My designs and development were highly appreciated. But now because of just security my DB is being rejected. The problem aroused because of the security issues. I tried using the Logging On database as presented here in the Code section of this Site. But it was completely rejected by the authorities. They wanted something like following
1.The administrator has the power to give the user special privileges like mentioned in the User level security i.e making users like read-only, backup, data entry etc
2.The administrator has the power to block any user from opening any form whenever he likes.
When I presented them with the user level security as in Ms Access they were completely lost and they find it really difficult to use. Further more the names of the forms as I have used are starting with “frm” where as they want only the simple names of each form. If I start changing my form names I would complete mess up my DB
Please advice what should I do to make the user level security easy for them to use.
Or how can I develop my own security system in which user can use my above mentioned points.
I have implemented user level security on a database and it seems to work fine. The issue is that every other database on that computer seems to have inherited the permissions. I only want these permissions to refer to that one database.
What have I done wrong?
Thanks
Niall
Hi,
I have a question.
When we create a user-level security, we can do it of the Tools-Security-> user-level security.
However,
can we use VBA code to create user-level security? Yes/No.
I just curiously want to know.
Because I just know that VBA can update the user-level security.
Please let me know, thanks.
I need to implement some type of security on my database to limit the forms/reports users can access. When implemented it will be a split database on a network. I'd like to set it up so only certain users can edit/add data on certain forms. Also I want to have more than one user be able to edit/add data at the same time. I'm confused as what I need to do to set up this type of security. I found another post on this forum by Oldsoftboss (Dave) that gave a good, working example of a database with user login screens and different user security levels. My questions are:
1. Can I use his system in place of the built-in Access security?
2 . Do I need to implement both? If I don't use or change the access rights in
Access security, won't everybody be logging in with "Admin" rights?
3. What do I need to do to let multiple users work in the database at the same
time? I've already changed the database to "shared".
4. I don't want the users being able to change the forms, queries or reports
so I'm distributing an MDE file. Is there anything else I need to do so
users can't access the "design" button?
Needless to say, this whole security thing confuses me. Any help would be appreciated.
Rod
I need to launch the database on the server as a multi user. Only one station can change the designs and major issues. But other stations have the right to add/edit/delete data. I tried that through security account and permission. It works on the admin, but not with other user login.
How can I link the access user to my server user login?
Tanks a million. :(
I want to put 2 Dbs on a network server. Below are the groups that can get to each directory.
Directory Students: Students, faculty, few staff
Directory Staff: all Staff
I will have a separate workgroup for each Db because each group of users is so different. Each Db will have all deselected user permissions and assigned groups and group permissions.
Questions:
-Could a computer programmer student get into any code in the Db in the Students directory, even tho they would not have user-level permission to do so?
-Could a student somehow affect in any way the other Db in the Staff directory?
In other words, could somebody use the Db in the Students directory to cause trouble anywhere else in our network?
Thanks
Hello guys
i want to prepare User level security for accessing database/tables/fors and reports.
So can anyone have step wise procedure? I am using wizard, but am not able to set up.
Thank very much:)
I need to give different users different levels of access to my database.
I ran the user level security wizard and have correctly created user accounts. I chose to make my account a member of the Admins group, and that appears to have worked in that I can go into User and Group Accounts and create accounts, remove passwords, change group membership etc.
However, I am no longe able to access the User Level Security wizard. Access gives me a message when I try, saying that I need to be a member of the Admins group to control security settings.
Can anyone confirm if this is correct or if I have done something wrong? I don't want to let my users start using the database and then find out I've actually locked myself out of some vital settings at a later date!
Thanks in advance,
Gary
I created my user group in access and I want each user to reach different datas in the same database. I can do that for tables, forms, and reports and I also did bat I am just asking how each user can see different datas in the same table? If anybody can help thanks from now. :)
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