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Q100970: ADT: How to Give Users the Ability to Change Passwords (2.0)

Article: Q100970
Product(s): Microsoft Access Distribution Kit
Version(s): WINDOWS:1.1,2.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbusage
Last Modified: 13-JUN-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Access Distribution Kit, version 1.1 
- Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit, version 2.0 
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SUMMARY
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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.

MORE INFORMATION
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To achieve this functionality, do the following:

1. 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).

2. From the Security menu, choose Password. The user then changes the password.

3. 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.

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Keywords          : kbusage 
Technology        : kbAudDeveloper kbAccessSearch kbAccessDevTK200 kbZNotKeyword3 kbAccessDistKit110
Version           : WINDOWS:1.1,2.0
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbhowto

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