Hi,
I have never used the password protection features of OpenOffice but
from what I understand its not worth risking mission-critical
information on it. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't know anything about your software and its implementation but
maybe a password protected database would be more secure?
On 27 Aug 2007, at 18:09, Emergent Mfg. wrote:
Hello,
I am with a company that has developed a logbook software(dyna-
log.com) for the commercial trucking industry using a spreadsheet
format, i.e. scalc and excel. When I engage sheet protection and
password protect this work book in say MS Excel, any version, and
open it in OOo SCalc, I need not enter the password to unlock and
make the workbook editable. This also applies to the vice-versa
where I protect a workbook in scalc and open it in excel. No
password needed, and any user can fully edit our copyrighted
version of the workbook. Please give me any idea on how to prevent
this from happening, as I would love to offer your open source
software to our customers as an alternative to ms excel, but would
hate to think that someone could stumble across this distribute it
among our market base. You can contact me at 903.571.9898 or by
replying to this email. Thank you in advance for responding
quickly to this matter.
Thanks,
Kyle Engel
PO Box 1210
Frankston, TX 75763
O – (903)876-3679
F – (903)876-5201
C – (903)571-9898
www.emergentmfg.com
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