Windows Password 1

[abe6162]

I want to make a login screen to my Access application using the windows username and password.

I know I can retrieve the user name by ..
Environ$("UserName")

Is there a way to retrieve the windows password, just for verification?

Is this even possible to do this with a Access VBA application?

 

[RickSpr]

Think about it. If it were possible to retrieve a network password with code, any programmer could steal anyone's password, couldn't they? That wouldn't be very secure.

Reconsider your objective. The user has already logged onto Windows using his password, so you can assume that the current user has already been authenticated. There is no need to have him log on separately to Access if you're basing security on his network logon. In other words, you already know he has the password, so there's no need to ask for it.

Unless, of course, you need to re-authenticate him because he's using a shared computer on a factory floor or something like that. But in that case, you shouldn't be using the network user name, because it could be anybody.

Rick Sprague
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[abe6162]

Thank you. I appreciate you help. I understand what you mean about retrieving the password from the network.

This was a request from the user. They didn't want to remeber any new passwords.