ADT: How to Give Users the Ability to Change Passwords (2.0) (100970)

SUMMARY

Advanced: Requires expert coding, interoperability, and multiuser skills.

This article describes how to distribute a secure application with the Microsoft Access Distribution Kit or Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit and still give your users the ability to change their passwords.

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To achieve this functionality, do the following:

Make the Database window active so that you can access the Security menu. (The best method for this is to select an object in the Database window through a macro).
From the Security menu, choose Password. The user then changes the password.

Once the user has closed the Password dialog box, set the focus back to the form that you called the macro or function from.

Here is a sample macro:

      Macro Name         Actions
      -------------------------------
      Change Password    SelectObject
                         DoMenuItem
                         SelectObject

      Change Password Actions
      ----------------------------
      SelectObject
          Object Type: Macro
          Object Name: Autoexec
          In Database window: Yes
      DoMenuItem
          Menu Bar: Database
          Menu Name: Security
          Command: Change Password
          Subcommand:
      SelectObject
          Object Type: Form
          Object Name: Form1
          In Database window: No

The Database window appears, as well as the dialog box to change the password. You cannot select anything in the Database window because the Change Password dialog box is modal.

In the Microsoft Access Distribution Kit or Developer's Toolkit, the functionality is identical except that the Database window is not displayed.