Get current user password

[mindtpi99]

Hi

can someone please tell me if there is any way to get the current user password that they use to login to the database - I can't see anything in scriptmaker to do it

ta!!

[RalphL]

You can get the user group which would tell you what level they used to login.

Why do you want or need the password?

[Vaughan]

Being able to get the current user's password would be a MAJOR security breach.

In FMP 7 it cannot be done anyway, because the passwords themselves are not stored in the files, only the hashes (encrypted versions) of the passwords are stored.

As Ralph suggests, in FMP 6 assign a group to the password, then look for the group the user belongs to.

Security is much, much better in FMP 7. FMP 7 has proper account names as well as passwords, and accounts are linked to privilege sets. So you could work with the account name or the privilege set.