FileMaker Pro 4.1 Mac User's Guide

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When you share databases, you need a security system so that
confidential data is protected and unauthorized changes aren’t made.
With FileMaker Pro, you protect files by defining passwords and
groups. Passwords limit what users can do and groups limit the layouts
and fields they can see. Both passwords and groups have access
privileges:
1 For passwords, access privileges limit a user’s activities with a file.
For example, one password might let users create and edit records,
but another might only let them browse records.
Passwords can also limit access to an entire file—if you don’t know
a password, you can’t open the file.
1 For groups, access privileges limit access to specific layouts and
fields. For example, you can give the Sales group access to one set of
layouts and fields and the Marketing group access to a different set,
keeping each group’s information private within the same database.