Re: Database securing problem

From: Ricky Artigas (ricky_artigas@yahoo.com)
Date: 11/04/02 

From: "Ricky Artigas" <ricky_artigas@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 23:41:29 +0800

Place it on a Win2k or XP machine and set the file permissions.

"B Andrei" <bandrei@mediafax.ro> wrote in message
news:470501c283eb$cefc7540$37ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA13...
> I'm running a MSDE 1.0 on a windows 98 machine.
> Whatever user permissions for my database I set, another
> person with file access can simply copy the database (mdf
> and ldf files) to another sql server that he owns (so that
> he knows the passwords) and attach my database
> successfully.
> I'm planning to distribute a desktop application with
> an MSDE engine for database support and I can not find any
> solution to secure the content of it.
> Please help... if any of the ms guys can give me a
> suggestion. The previous version of my application used an
> Access database with a workgroup file and it worked very
> well, but now I can't find something to prevent someone to
> copy the database without detaching it and browsing the
> content.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei B.
>

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