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Article: Introduction to Microsoft Access Security And Passwords
MS Access features three independent types of passwords:
- Database Passwords
- Security Accounts Passwords
- Visual Basic Modules passwords
Security Accounts Passwords
The most powerful yet complex way to secure a database is to set up
user-level security. If user-level security is defined, the members of a
workgroup are recorded in user and group accounts that are stored in a
Microsoft Access workgroup information file (also known as System
Database).
Each user and group account has its own unique Access Security ID (SID)
that is created from user or group name, Personal ID and Workgroup ID.
There are also some predefined SIDs that remain the same for all the
Workgroups: 'Admin' and 'guest' accounts, and 'Guests', 'Users' groups.
Each workgroup information file contains MSysAccounts table that stores
all user and group account names, encrypted user passwords and SIDs.
Access uses SIDs to check user's permissions. Each database has MSysACEs
table (both Hidden and System, not visible by default) with
permissions information for all the objects in the database. In the table
there's a list of SID/applicable permissions pairs for each database
object. Before a user attempts any action on a database object MS Access
(or Jet Engine to be exact) scans MSysACEs table using current user SID
(and all the SIDs of user's groups) to verify permissions for the action.
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In Garry's book, you will find out how to organise the contents of the workgroup file so that Password Cracker software cannot read it.
Read more on the different types
of Access passwords here
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Garry Robinson writes for a number
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100+ Access databases. He is based in Sydney, Australia
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