How do I refuse access after three incorrect passwords?

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From:	MIKE SMITH
Date:	Tuesday 13 March 2001 9:02 AM
Subject:	Nested IF
Question:	Good Day!! I am just learning VB, I am doing a project that I need to set up an opening screen that requests a password and after three failed attempts will exit the program. Do you have any suggestions for me? Should I be using a nested IF? Look forward to hearing from you as this has got me totally confused and I can't find an example in any of my books. Thanx, Mike

Firstly, create a form that looks similar to this:

The password textbox needs to have the PasswordChar property set to '*'.

In the General/Declarations section of the code window, you will need to declare an Integer variable, which will count how many attempts the user has made. When the user clicks on the OK button, the code will check to see if the correct password has been entered. If not, the value of the Var1 variable will be incremented by 1. If the user enters three incorrect passwords, a message box will appear saying that the program will terminate, which it does afterwards.

Dim Var1 As Integer

Private Sub Command1_Click()
If Text2.Text <> "hello" Then
    Select Case Var1
    Case Is <= 2
   MsgBox "The password is incorrect", vbExclamation, "Incorrect Password"
   Var1 = Var1 + 1
   Case Else
   MsgBox "You have entered the wrong password too many times, you are now locked out. Please contact your system administrator. The program will now terminate.", vbCritical, "Locked Out"
   Unload Me
   End Select
Else
MsgBox "(The correct password was entered)"
End If
End Sub

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From:	Willyandago
Date:	Friday, January 19, 2007 at 09:01:19
Comments:	Hi i was having a problem but now am happy because i got the solution from this site keep it up men thanx

From:	Alison Walls
Date:	Wednesday, June 29, 2005 at 12:13:59
Comments:	Hi I am trying to get my program to exit after 3 failed password attempts. I have tried the code above and can't get it to work. It doesn't seem to count the number of attempts. Any ideas? Thanks, Alison

Reply:

Did you declare the variable in the General/Declarations section? Another way of doing it is to declare it in the Command1_Click event using the Static statement. That way the variables value will be retained for as long as the code is running.

From:	Phakama
Date:	Saturday, August 28, 2004 at 13:41:45
Comments:	Hi you have help me very much with your suggestions now i know how to use PassWordChar.Thank you very much.

Reply:

PasswordChar can be set at design time or runtime. To set it at runtime, use the following code:

Text1.PasswordChar = "*"

To turn the PasswordChar off, set it to a zero-length string.

From:

Lenny

Date:

Thursday, July 22, 2004 at 22:51:21

Comments:

You could store the password in a textfile:

Private Sub cmdLogin_Click()
Dim strREAD As String
Dim strPassword As String

If txtPassword.Text = "" Then
txtPassword.SetFocus

Else

Open "C:\Password.TXT" For Input As #1
Do While Not EOF(1)
Input #1, strPassword
strREAD = strPassword
Loop
Close #1

If txtPassword.Text = strREAD Then
MsgBox "Correct Password!", , ""
Else
MsgBox "Incorrect Password!", , ""

End If
End If
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
txtPassword.PasswordChar = "*"
End Sub

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You can add a registry, but you will need to add to the regisrty - "100598.reg"

Private Sub cmdLogin_Click()
Dim strREAD As String

If txtPassword.Text = "" Then
txtPassword.SetFocus

Else
strREAD = GetSetting("Project1", "STARTUP", "PASSWORD", &H8000000F)

If txtPassword.Text = strREAD Then
MsgBox "Correct Password!", , ""
Else
MsgBox "Incorrect Password!", , ""

End If
End If
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
txtPassword.PasswordChar = "*"
End Sub

Yup. I think that's right! Hope this helps, geraldine!

From:	gina
Date:	Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 12:37:09
Comments:	how do the same for entering username on three attempts

Reply:

Replace the line:

If Text2.Text <> "hello" Then

with:

If Text1.Text <> "gina" Then '"gina" is a sample username and Text1 is the username TextBox

From:	grean
Date:	Monday, February 3, 2003 at 19:39:55
Comments:	what coding would you put in there if you wanted the program to switch to another form and close the login box, only if the password is correct? thanks grean.

Reply:

Replace the line:

MsgBox "(The correct password was entered)"

with:

Unload Me 'Unload the login form
Form2.Show 'Replace Form2 with whatever form you want to show

From:	Thursday, January 2, 2003 at 11:34:06
Date:	Chellie
Comments:	what are the codings in making a password for a system program?

From:	Daniel
Date:	Wednesday, December 4, 2002 at 11:20:58
Comments:	Hello. I am having trouble in disabling a button. What it is, the program asks the user to input a password a few times. On failing to input the correct password on the attempts given, rather than closing the program, the button the user clicked is disabled. Can you please help. Bye.

Reply:

Just replace the line:

Unload Me

with:

Command1.Enabled = False

This will disable the button.

From:	geraldine
Date:	Thursday, November 28, 2002 at 07:39:35
Comments:	how to set the password before writing this program?

Reply:

The above program is just an example of how to stop the user from entering the program if they input three incorrect passwords. The password is set in the third line:

If Text2.Text <> "hello" Then

Where the password is 'hello'. In reality, passwords can be hard-coded in the executable or anywhere else e.g. an external file.

How do I refuse access after three incorrect passwords?

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