Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations Mike Lewis on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
password request on open
- Thread starter ceccina
- Start date
Locally you have no security on a Notes database. A password is useless - you would be much better off encrypting the database with at least Medium encryption.
If you really want strong protection, push the encryption level to Strong.
But forget about passwords and even Access control. If you search carefully, you can find tools that can change each entry in the ACL - so I don't think that a password is really of any use.
You can, of course, go into the DatabaseScript and implement a password check in the PostOpen event - but that is programmatic and, unless you also hide the database design, anyone with local access can also change the design. Also, hiding the design will bring another host of issues - as in how do you change the password ?
More trouble than it's worth. Encryption is much better.
Pascal.
I've got nothing to hide, and I'd very much like to keep that away from prying eyes.
If you really want strong protection, push the encryption level to Strong.
But forget about passwords and even Access control. If you search carefully, you can find tools that can change each entry in the ACL - so I don't think that a password is really of any use.
You can, of course, go into the DatabaseScript and implement a password check in the PostOpen event - but that is programmatic and, unless you also hide the database design, anyone with local access can also change the design. Also, hiding the design will bring another host of issues - as in how do you change the password ?
More trouble than it's worth. Encryption is much better.
Pascal.
I've got nothing to hide, and I'd very much like to keep that away from prying eyes.
- Status