LASsie (Light Application Security) for MS Access 4.3 Description
LASsie (Light Application Security) is a Microsoft Access Add-In that enhances your Access application with a simplified user security system. Intended as an alternative to Access’ built-in security, LASsie offers a less complicated way to secure forms, reports, controls and certain records from unauthorized user access. With LASsie, you can prevent a user from opening specific forms/reports, restrict their ability to update data on a form, disable certain controls, filter certain records, all based on a user’s assigned Security Level. 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 quot;change password quot; 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, if data updates are allowed, and more.LASsie is called quot;light quot; application security because it is not intended to be a robust, 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 linking to them in an external, encrypted database, you could minimize the possibility of such potential breaches, but you should understand that we do not guarantee that such a breach will never occur. That being said, LASsie can serve quite well as an application security system where users are relatively unsophisticated, or where application data is not of a highly classified nature.
