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CREATE MSACCESS USER ACCOUNT

Create a security user account

  1. Start Microsoft Access and Open a Database. On the Tools menu, point to Security, and then click User and Group Accounts.
  2. Click the New button on the Users tab of the User and Group Accounts dialog box and enter a User-Name and a unique Personal ID (PID) in the New User/Group dialog box and then click OK.

    The user name can range from 1 to 20 characters, and can include alphabetic characters, accented characters, numbers, spaces, and symbols, with the following exceptions:

    • The characters "\ [ ] : | < > + = ; , . ? *
    • Leading spaces
    • Control characters (ASCII 10 through ASCII 31)

    Caution: Be sure to write down the exact account name and PID, including whether letters are uppercase or lowercase, and keep them in a secure place.

    If you ever have to re-create an account that has been deleted or created in a different workgroup, you must supply the same name and PID entries.

    If you forget or lose these entries, you can't recover them.

    Notes: The PID entered is not a password.

    Microsoft Access uses the PID and the user name as seeds for an encryption algorithm to generate a secure identifier for the user account. The new name will appear in the user name box.

  3. Click on the Admins group name in the "Available Group" List and then click on Add>> button to join yourself in the Admins Group.

    Notes: The procedure is the same for creating a user account for others, but you need to join them into Group Accounts that you create to join users to the different workgroup, like Data Entry Group, Supervisors Group, Managers Group, or whatever group to share your database and each group with specific access rights.

  4. Now that you have created your own Administrator account, exit Microsoft Access and then start it again.
  5. This time, log on with your new Administrator account.

    You have not yet set a password for your new Administrator account so leave the password box empty on the login dialog box.

  6. Select the Tools menu, point to Security, and select User, and Group Account. Select change Log on the password tab. Type a new password in the new password box.
  7. Verify the password. Leave the old password box empty.

We have removed the default Admin user from the Admins Group as part of the safety measure. It is equally important that you remove all permissions of all Objects for Users Group by selecting the object type (Database, Tables, Queries, Forms, Reports, Macros) and de-selecting the permissions checkboxes after highlighting the objects in the Object Name List. This step is very important because all users are the members of the Users Group (Users Group itself cannot be removed like we removed Admins Group for Admin user account) even if we remove the permissions of all objects for that particular user account he will inherit the Group level permissions from the Users Group and user level or other group level permission setting will have no effect.

Create Group Accounts and assign permissions for Objects at a User-Group level and Add users to the Group (Like Data Entry Group, Supervisor-Group, Manager Group, etc.,) and not necessary to assign permissions at the user level every time you add a new user, if already assigned them at the Group Level. Only you need to add the user to a specific Group or Groups-

  • Set Open/Run only permissions to Forms, Reports, and Macros for User Groups.
  • You may assign Ownership for those Tables that get over-written while running Make-Table Queries, as part of the data processing tasks, they can safely be over-written without access-right problems.

Notes:

The workgroup information file contains only the user name, Workgroup Names, Personal IDs, and passwords.

The permissions setting is stored, along with the database.

When you create a new database see that you remove all permissions of the Users Group Account before assigning permissions for your Users or User Groups.

Click Next to see how to create a security User Group Account.

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MS-ACCESS Security Links.

  1. Create a security user account
  2. Create a security group account
  3. Add users to security groups
  4. Remove users from security groups
  5. Delete a security user account
  6. Delete a security group account
  7. Create or change a security account password
  8. Clear a security account password
  9. Assign or remove permissions
  10. Assign default permissions for new tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros.
  11. View or transfer ownership of Objects
  12. Transfer ownership of an entire database to another administrator
  13. Permit others to view or run my query but not change data or query design.
  14. Change default permissions for all new queries.
  15. RunPermissions Property
  16. Convert  Microsoft Access 95 or 97 secured databases.
  17. Convert a workgroup information file from a previous version of Microsoft Access.
  18. Share a previous-version secured database across several versions of Microsoft Access
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  3. Hey, I am not able to see this "User and Group Accoubnts" in my database where as i have already activate the WorkGroup Information File through the Macro as the procedure is given at MS Website. please advise. thanks

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  4. If you are using Access2007 or 2010 then Open a database with .MDB extension (Access2003 or earlier version database).

    Select Database Tools Menu.
    Select Users and Permissions from Administer Group
    Select User and Group Accounts... from the displayed Menu.

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