i have a form which i have to protect with a password. this form is called from a user form which does not have any passwords on it. which means anyone can access it. in order to accomplish the security i placed a password in an access database but the database itself cannot be password protected since the no-password calling form has to access this database. based on that there is a potential security issue since a person can just open the database and alter the password and then access the form which is supposed to be secure. but i cannot think up a better solution. does anyone have a suggestion?

i thought about encrypting the password before writing it to the database in such a form that if someone wants to change the password in the dbs he would have to first know and apply the encryption but i have little idea of how to do an encryption.