Maybe you could put a paswword share on the server mapped vantage directory?
Rick
"Lepley, Scott A." wrote:
Rick
"Lepley, Scott A." wrote:
> That's a good point, Troy. One outcome of the issue being raised here has[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> been my recognition of the security holes I've created by installing Report
> Builder for various users. I plan to remove Report Builder where necessary.
>
> How would you prevent a user from installing or re-installing Report
> Builder?
>
> Regards,
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:22 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Vantage] Vantage security and ODBC
>
> Incidently, any user who knows how to create a shortcut could, in theory,
> install report builder on their machine and run it too.
>
> So using Access, although a potential time-bomb, relies on the ignorance of
> the general user. It is the rogue programmer-in-disguise-as-an-engineer
> that will might you headaches.
>
> Troy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lepley, Scott A.
> To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 5:46 AM
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] Vantage security and ODBC
>
> Thanks for the reply, Troy. I understand that allowing data input via
> ODBC
> would or could bypass validation routines and thereby corrupt the
> database.
> That type of access is already ruled out in my opinion. However, even if
> the ODBC link were limited to read-only, that doesn't alleviate my
> concern.
> My concern is regarding just that ability, that of the Access application
> users being able to read the data. It appears that ODBC would allow them
> to
> see virtually any data, whether they needed to see it or not. If it were
> acceptable for these users to see all data, I would simply install Report
> Builder on their machines to let them access the data that way.
>
>
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