Hi all, I am not too sure if this is even possible. I dont think so but thats why I am throwing it out here...

A client wants to see if there is a way to find out if someone is logging in with a password with full access privleges. In other words, an employee is logging in with a user name ( not necessarily her user name, so it adds to the problem ) and a password with access privleges to modify certain fields. These fields should not be able to be modified unless you have the password.

So, the client has asked if there was a method or plugin that would alert them if users have logged in with that password.

Any thoughts? TIA.

This is on FM6 btw.

Well as a starter I'd change the master password. Since this is FMP 6, by "user name" I presume you mean the user name from the preferences, since there is no Account name in FMP 6 credentials.

Steven

Ah Steven, I awas rather hoping that you would show up.

Yes you are correct Steven about both assumptions. Obviously the first thing she should have done was change the password. However, the reason this came about was that she does not want to change the password. Basically she does not want to do anything to put up flags. She is trying to catch her employee in the act.

Edited October 25, 200520 yr by Guest

There is probably some off-beat way to do this. If I have a chance I'll reinstall FMP 6 and look at it. It's been a long time since I looked at that stuff.

Steven

You would have to set up groups and assign one group uniquely to the master password. Then use this group to track the access. Passwords themselves cannot be tracked, only their associated group.

You could, for instance, set the startup script of the file to create a new record in another database every time the master password was used, but there are many ways to defeat this and it will be obvious that the tracking is occurring -- they only have to look at the script definitions, and the other file will be visible to them.