Question

Curious as to how to compare a text box string to the password the user used to authenticate themselves when they started the Microsoft Access database.

Microsoft Access version is 2003. Users authenticate themselves using Microsoft Access Jet security.

UPDATE: Per CesarGon (thank you), this is really a question of comparing hashed values; how might I replicate the hashing Microsoft Access does and compare the hashes?

Answer 1

In your change password form, you can execute an ado sql command:

ALTER USER user PASSWORD newpassword oldpassword

Just make sure the text entered for both passwords are not the same.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb177884.aspx