AutoCAD password

[S-8-N]

We are using the password protection on our CAD files to keep other departments out of our files. I just learned that this is available so I am sketchy on the details sorry. I have seen it on a file already working. What you do is when you click on a file to open it a password request comes up, if you don't have it right you don't get in. What I am wondering, is there a way around that, that anyone has found? I know in some programs I have use in the past a couple certain button clicks gets you around the password request. I am figuring AutoCAD is smarter than that but stranger things have happened. Anything?

[SLW210]

Do NOT forget your password.

[S-8-N]

LOL ya no kidding! I was just wondering if we get this set up to work if someone else is going to be able to get around it easily.

[SLW210]

No One ever. Forget the password and all is lost.

[ReMark]

You wanted a password protected drawing and now you have one...in spades! Be careful what you wish for.

 

AutoDesk warns their users to not lose/forget the password to their drawing(s).

[Jack_O'neill]

You'd be far better off restricting access by putting the files on a unique drive and restrict access through user permissions. Think about it...if you password every drawing, you'll have to enter it every time you open on. When I was working for the last corporation I quite often opened 100 or more drawings every day and it would be a waste of time to have to enter a password 100 times.

 

In these days of counting keystrokes to maximize production, it makes little sense to make someone enter passwords.

[Dana W]

;)Write it down, put it in a ziplock bag and tape it to the underside of the toilet tank lid.

 

Anybody that has the password can change it any time they want.

 

Please, set up a special network drive letter and protect that instead, or if networkless, set up passworded user accounts on each machine.

 

I still have two 2007 dwg files I can't open. I hadda pull an all nighter to redraw both of them from plots years ago. A co-worker (fired) thought it was a good idea to password "her" stuff.

[dbroada]

what came first - the firing or the password?

[ReMark]

The chicken came first. Or was it the egg? Can't recall.

[dbroada]

no, it was the other one

[Dana W]

what came first - the firing or the password?

 

Hoooboy. The password thing was only discovered after her departure, and the least of her problems. How's about yelling at a client, a high end Georgetown interior designer, and knocking over a $6,000.00 wenge flatscreen cabinet while the laquer was still wet. I don't think she really wanted to be in the custom furniture business any more.

 

Thankfully, the nature of the business is such that drawings are rarely re-visited on screen after the piece is produced. I had to re-do those last two to get them into the shop.

[S-8-N]

I like the toilet lid idea or put it under the vaccum cause no one uses that. We have tried to get the IT department to give us our own drive or location to protect but they don't see the "need". The drafting department is not the main focus of the company so we don't always get what we need/want. I did get a new computer a few months ago which helped out but it still slows down even with wipethread up all the way. OH well I guess there is no way to break into the drawings once protected which is good for us. We (5 of us) are using the same password so unless four of us die or quit one of us should know the password. I wrote it down and taped it under my desk. Thanks for the info everyone.

[Dana W]

I like the toilet lid idea or put it under the vaccum cause no one uses that. We have tried to get the IT department to give us our own drive or location to protect but they don't see the "need". The drafting department is not the main focus of the company so we don't always get what we need/want. I did get a new computer a few months ago which helped out but it still slows down even with wipethread up all the way. OH well I guess there is no way to break into the drawings once protected which is good for us. We (5 of us) are using the same password so unless four of us die or quit one of us should know the password. I wrote it down and taped it under my desk. Thanks for the info everyone.

The 5 of you should never fly on a business trip together then. Don't tape it to the toilet lid. The DEA will find it there when they come for your weed.

[Jack_O'neill]

I like the toilet lid idea or put it under the vaccum cause no one uses that. We have tried to get the IT department to give us our own drive or location to protect but they don't see the "need". The drafting department is not the main focus of the company so we don't always get what we need/want. I did get a new computer a few months ago which helped out but it still slows down even with wipethread up all the way. OH well I guess there is no way to break into the drawings once protected which is good for us. We (5 of us) are using the same password so unless four of us die or quit one of us should know the password. I wrote it down and taped it under my desk. Thanks for the info everyone.

 

 

That will work till someone gets torqued off about something and starts using a different password for the last month or two before he leaves. If that happens, you're screwed.