Security HELP needed

[john kisch]

MAC user of FM 5

I'm looking for a plugin or other method to do 2 things.

1) prevent a user of a file to 'save a copy as' when they have access to the entire file.

2) have file quit working entirely after 365 days of use by specific user.

I'm clueless to a quick and easy fix. Any help?

Thanks in advance

[Steven H. Blackwell]

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Originally posted by John Kisch:

MAC user of FM 5

I'm looking for a plugin or other method to do 2 things.

1) prevent a user of a file to 'save a copy as' when they have access to the entire file.

2) have file quit working entirely after 365 days of use by specific user.

I'm clueless to a quick and easy fix. Any help?

Thanks in advance

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If users "have access to the entire file", meaning they are the host and have the master password, then you can't do either of these.

If you are a guest, then you can not save a copy of the file.

What are you actually trying to achieve here? Perhaps a runtime or privilege altered file would be a better bet.

Old Advance Man

[danjacoby]

As regards your second request:

Create a global first date field (gFirstDate) -- make it a date field

Create a global current date field (gCurrentDate) -- make it a date field

Create a global expired field (gExpired) -- make it a text field

Create an Open script that does the following:

Enters the current date in gFirstDate if it is empty

Sets gCurrentDate to the current date

If gCurrentDate - gFirstDate >= 365, sets gExpired to "Expired"

If gExpired is not empty, closes the file -- perhaps you could

show a message explaining why it closes first.

Note: have the last step run twice -- first at the top of the

script, then again at the end

The nifty thing about this method is that, once the expiration date has arrived, it's impossible to circumvent it by, say, resetting the date on the computer. It's how I time bomb all my demos. It ain't perfect -- if someone has the foresight to reset the date on his/her computer before opening it (every time!), it won't work. But then, who's willing to go to all that trouble?