| LASsie (Light Application
Security) is a library of Microsoft Access objects that
you can reference from, or add into your MS Access application
to implement basic form and/or report level security. With
LASsie, you can prevent a user from opening specific forms/reports,
or restrict a user’s ability to update data on a form. LASsie
includes a friendly user sign-on form that prompts for a
login user name and password.
Users can change their own
passwords via the included "change password" form. Optionally,
the sign-on form can be bypassed and the user's network
login username can be used. Once the user name is verified,
his/her session is assigned a security level code that determines
which forms or reports can be accessed, and if data updates
are allowed. LASsie is called ""light"" application security
because it is not intended to be a robust, crack-proof,
high-end security application.
In fact, a sophisticated
user could edit the underlying tables and change their own
security level. By hiding the LASsie tables, and/or putting
them in an external, encrypted database, you could minimize
the possibility of such potential breaches, but you should
understand that using LASsie does not guarantee crack-proof
form/report level security. That being said, LASsie can
serve quite well as an application security system where
users are relatively unsophisticated. |