Re: [users] Password Protection

2008-11-17 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Dhananjay, Dhananjay Mudgal wrote (14-11-2008 4:34) I am having Win Xp Pro OO 3.0 installed on my system. In OO 3.0 my default format to save spreadsheet is .xls. I want to protect my sheet with password, like we do in Ms excel. It should ask for password before opening the sheet. I am

Re: [users] password protection

2008-03-15 Thread Drew Jensen
Robert Holtzman wrote: In the help files under password protection the instruction is to hit file - save as. In the database I created, save and save as are greyed out. Is it not possible to password protect a database in OOo? Not at this time - no. For whatever reason the support for

Re: [users] password protection

2008-03-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Drew Jensen wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: In the help files under password protection the instruction is to hit file - save as. In the database I created, save and save as are greyed out. Is it not possible to password protect a database in OOo? Not at this time - no.

Re: [users] password protection

2008-03-15 Thread Drew Jensen
Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Drew Jensen wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: In the help files under password protection the instruction is to hit file - save as. In the database I created, save and save as are greyed out. Is it not possible to password protect a database in OOo?

Re: [users] password protection

2008-03-15 Thread Jack D. Lewis
Drew Jensen wrote the following on 3/15/2008 2:16 PM: How about encryption, i.e. GPG? No. I should have added there is no way to password protect the actual odb file either, as there is with odt, ods, odg. Drew I missed the first part of this thread but there are other alternatives to

Re: [users] password protection

2008-03-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Jack D. Lewis wrote: I missed the first part of this thread but there are other alternatives to password protect/encrypt an odb file, or any other file for that matter. This is not found inside OOo but one very good FOSS package for Windows is AxCrypt which is found at

Re: [users] password protection

2008-03-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Drew Jensen wrote: I should have added there is no way to password protect the actual odb file either, as there is with odt, ods, odg. I would sincerely hope this could be implemented in a not too distant future release. -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're getting free

Re: [users] password protection

2008-03-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:52:53 -0400 Drew Jensen wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: In the help files under password protection the instruction is to hit file - save as. In the database I created, save and save as are greyed out. Is it not possible to password protect a database in OOo?

Re: [users] Password protection

2007-09-28 Thread jonathon
On 9/28/07, Tapas Ray wrote: Is there a way to retain the password protection which saving as MS Word? I No. xan jonathon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [users] Password protection

2007-09-28 Thread Kirill S. Palagin
Not possible at the moment, but you could vote for such feature at http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=39527. -Original Message- From: Tapas Ray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 3:39 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Password

Re: [users] Password Protection

2007-01-05 Thread Harold Fuchs
On Friday, January 05, 2007 1:20 AM [GMT+1=CET], Jonathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John wrote: I am questioning the security of the password system on openoffice.org. Let's put it this way. If you have forgotten your password, you have lost the encrypted data --- unless you can afford to

Re: [users] Password Protection

2007-01-04 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi John. John R. Sowden wrote: I am questioning the security of the password system on openoffice.org. I saved a spreadsheet with a simple password. I then looked at it with If you saved the file with a password, it is secure. If you protect parts of the spreadsheet, the contents can

Re: [users] Password Protection

2007-01-04 Thread Jonathon
John wrote: I am questioning the security of the password system on openoffice.org. Let's put it this way. If you have forgotten your password, you have lost the encrypted data --- unless you can afford to spend $10^15 per year for a couple of decades, to brute force it. xan jonathon

Re: [users] Password Protection

2007-01-03 Thread Shaun McDonald
Hi John, On 3 Jan 2007, at 20:41, John R. Sowden wrote: I am questioning the security of the password system on openoffice.org. I saved a spreadsheet with a simple password. I then looked at it with midnight commander in the ascii and hex modes. it showed a directory of about 10