Hi,
I want to ask a related question. In Excel for example, you could write a VBA routine and then password protect it so that people cannot see the actual program. Is there some way to password protect your stata ado/do files so that the actual code cannot be viewed?
Thanks
rajesh
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maarten buis
Sent: 19 May 2009 09:31
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: AW: password
--- 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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