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Microsoft Access Database Security - Documenting your Database Security:

After you have established security for your application, you can print a security report for a particular workgroup. In this report, you can see the security for both users and groups, just users, or just groups. The report includes group names and user names, and indicates which users and groups belong together in the particular workgroup. If you want to send the security report directly to the printer, you can use the Print Security dialog box to make selections about what level of security you want to document.

Let's start by taking a look at your options to print a report about users and groups in the sample database - MyNewApp.mdb. You will have created these user and group accounts and permissions in the previous tutorials listed at the bottom of this page.

Task A-9: Printing reports about security users and groups.

1. Choose Tools, Security, User And Group Accounts to open the User And Group Accounts dialog box.
2. Click Print Users And Groups to open the Print Security dialog box.
   
   
3. Take a look at the print security options.
   
   
   You can print reports that show one of the following security levels:
   • All users defined for the current workgroup.
   • All groups defined for the current workgroup.
   • Both user and group account information.
   All users in the current workgroup can print reports showing user and group information.
4. Click Cancel. Because printed security reports are sent directly to a printer, your computer must be attached to a printer if you click OK.
5. Close the User And Group Accounts dialog box. Next, you'll create a report on a form with permissions for each user and group.

Once you have tested your security you will want to Document Database Security.

Go to page:

1. Steps to Securing an Access Database by Using User-level Security
2. Setting Logon Procedures
3. Group Accounts
4. User Accounts
5. Changing a Password
6. The Security Wizard
7. Permissions
8. Testing Security
9. Documenting Database Security
10. Previewing Permissions
11. Securing a Database with a Database Password
12. Distributing the Secured Application