Re: Trouble setting up security

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Joan,
My apologies. That was not the dialog box instruction that left me puzzled.
Rather, it was the one in Step 12:
Open Access and log in as the user you created in step 7 (the password will
be blank). Cancel the opening dialog.
I took Cancel to mean click the Cancel button, but as I recall it is
necessary to leave the password blank and click OK.


"Joan Wild" <jwild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Bruce, I'll try and make it clearer. More inline...

BruceM wrote:
Thanks for your interest. The difficulty I had, as I recall, was
with item 5 in the Access 2000 instructions:
Open Access, canceling the opening dialog.
I have not had time to get back to this for several days, and do not
recall the details as clearly as I would like, but the way I remember
it is that after performing the first four steps I opened Access and
was presented with a password dialog.

That seems odd, as the dialog shouldn't appear until you've set a password
for the Admin user which is step 10. The dialog I'm referring to is the
one with 'create a new database, open existing file, etc'.

The difficulty I first had with this process, and the reason I scouted
around for other information after reading the the security FAQ is
all I need, was with the Microsoft Security FAQ. Section 1, Step 5
reads in part: "log back on as the new user account that you created
in step 4. You will not have a password ... so now is a good time to
set one." I figured out that logging in as the new user account
probably meant clearing Admin as the user and typing in the new user.
I then attempted to set the password ("now is a good time to set
one"). However, "now" means "later". I needed to change the name
from Admin to the new user, then click OK without entering a
password. Setting the password comes later, through the Security
menu, as I eventually learned.

Yes that's right. Step 5 says 'log back on' which to me means login -
i.e. username/password. I'll edit the page to make that clearer.

Thanks for your comments.
--
Joan Wild
Microsoft Access MVP




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