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Adding new user's password

Author
16 Oct 2007 3:16 PM
natalie
Apologizing in advance for my remedial question, but I cannot for the life of
me figure out how to ADD a new user and assign them a password to a secured
database.  I added them to my groups and gave them their special permissions
and I can click the db shortcut and sign on using their username - but how do
I apply a password to them each individually as I have my original users?  I
even tried the wizard again but to no avail. 
I thought there would be something I could do under security:user and group
accounts, but the only password I can change is mine (as administrator).  I
had read a post from 2005 where the advice was to do all the security stuff
in a form, but I didn't understand the process so it is probably beyond my
capability without step-by-step moron proof instructions.  Do I have any
other options?

Author
16 Oct 2007 8:48 PM
Joan Wild
You can login as the user and use Security, Accounts, Change password tab to set their password - probably easiest for you.

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Joan Wild
Microsoft Access MVP
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"natalie" <nata***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F17D1F04-87B7-4836-9CCE-9D43D1BC4766@microsoft.com...
> Apologizing in advance for my remedial question, but I cannot for the life of
> me figure out how to ADD a new user and assign them a password to a secured
> database.  I added them to my groups and gave them their special permissions
> and I can click the db shortcut and sign on using their username - but how do
> I apply a password to them each individually as I have my original users?  I
> even tried the wizard again but to no avail. 
> I thought there would be something I could do under security:user and group
> accounts, but the only password I can change is mine (as administrator).  I
> had read a post from 2005 where the advice was to do all the security stuff
> in a form, but I didn't understand the process so it is probably beyond my
> capability without step-by-step moron proof instructions.  Do I have any
> other options?
Author
17 Oct 2007 5:40 PM
natalie
OOOHHHHH - sign in as them to change the password!  You are brilliant!  Thank
you!

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"Joan Wild" wrote:

> You can login as the user and use Security, Accounts, Change password tab to set their password - probably easiest for you.
>
> --
> Joan Wild
> Microsoft Access MVP
> "natalie" <nata***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F17D1F04-87B7-4836-9CCE-9D43D1BC4766@microsoft.com...
> > Apologizing in advance for my remedial question, but I cannot for the life of
> > me figure out how to ADD a new user and assign them a password to a secured
> > database.  I added them to my groups and gave them their special permissions
> > and I can click the db shortcut and sign on using their username - but how do
> > I apply a password to them each individually as I have my original users?  I
> > even tried the wizard again but to no avail. 
> > I thought there would be something I could do under security:user and group
> > accounts, but the only password I can change is mine (as administrator).  I
> > had read a post from 2005 where the advice was to do all the security stuff
> > in a form, but I didn't understand the process so it is probably beyond my
> > capability without step-by-step moron proof instructions.  Do I have any
> > other options?
>

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