Bug 70638

Summary:	ENHANCEMENT: Protect the *.odb-file by setting a password to the file
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Soon <soon_1900>
Component:	Base	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	avsharapov, ebenich, Harry_the_korean, iplaw67, m.weghorn, robert, soon_1900, ssliackus, vasosergiou
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	needsDevAdvice, topicDesign
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56897
Whiteboard:	BSA
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	108914, 120255

Description Soon 2013-10-19 08:01:02 UTC

Hi.
I have a suggestion to improve librebase.
Can you add the option to set a password to the file like msaccess?, so i can protect my databases.

Thanks in advance.
Operating System: All
Version: unspecified

Comment 1 Robert Großkopf 2013-10-19 08:15:52 UTC

I set this to new. It has never been implemented. It's implemented for all documents except for databases. Could it be internal databases couldn't work with such a protected file?

Comment 2 Alex Thurgood 2015-01-03 17:39:28 UTC Comment hidden (no-value)

Adding self to CC if not already on

Comment 3 Gisbert 2017-02-23 15:11:04 UTC

I am missing this feature very much: it is needed to send and receive .odb-files containing sensitive data over the internet.
Of course I would have to unlock the .odb-file before starting to work or registering it...
In the meantime it would be nice to have a little macro-dialog to zip and unzip .odb-files with password protection.

Comment 4 Howard Johnson 2017-03-22 07:25:40 UTC

Until this exists in a one .odb file, one other possible workaround is to connect to the database (rather than use embedded), e.g. connect to MariaDB/MySQL, which has been set up with permissions, and also locate the database on a server that all parties can access.  

I think this is a very nice solution, and has a good track record for security, and data integrity, but clearly it's not as simple as a single encrypted .odb file.

Comment 5 Thomas Lendo 2017-11-02 23:09:34 UTC

*** Bug 113613 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 perie_gut 2018-09-20 04:03:48 UTC

any update on this feature?

Comment 7 Thomas Lendo 2018-10-02 07:23:18 UTC

*** Bug 117796 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Alex Thurgood 2021-12-09 11:06:55 UTC

*** Bug 145760 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 HTK300 2021-12-09 11:39:21 UTC

thanks to put me into the loop here, Alex