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RE: st: AW: password


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   RE: st: AW: password
Date   Tue, 19 May 2009 08:31:17 +0000 (GMT)

--- On Mon, 18/5/09, Visintainer PhD, Paul wrote:
> The question came from our institutional review board who
> wanted to know whether our analytic data files are
> passworded.  The example they gave me was Excel and
> Access, which can password databases. Some of the files
> where data are stored are shared drives.  I don't think
> that a single password will prevent access, but at least may
> deter it.  I couldn't find anything from a Stata
> search, so I didn't think the capacity existed.
> 
> I know there are other ways to deter access (e.g.,
> passwording folders or assigning individual drives which
> must be logged into).  We'll have to explore these.

A related strategy that you could consider is discussed here:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-06/msg00450.html

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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