Assign or remove permissions

You can add or remove permissions for an existing database and its objects, or you can set what permissions are used when you create new objects.

Assign or remove permissions for a database and its objects

Open the database.
The workgroup information file in use when you log on must contain the user or group accounts that you want to assign permissions for at this time; however, you can assign permissions to groups and add users to those groups later.
On the Tools menu, point to Security, and then click User And Group Permissions.
On the Permissions tab, click Users or Groups, and then in the User/Group Name box, click the user or group that you want to assign permissions to.
Click the type of object in the Object Type box, and then click the name of the object to assign permissions for in the Object Name box. Select multiple objects in the Object Name box by dragging through the objects you want to select, or by holding down CTRL and clicking the objects you want.
Note Hidden objects aren't displayed in the Object Name box unless you select Hidden objects on the View tab of the Options dialog box (Tools menu).
Under Permissions, select the permissions you want to assign, or clear the permissions you want to remove for the group or user, and then click Apply. Repeat steps 4 and 5 to assign or remove permissions for additional objects for the current user or group.
Repeat steps 3 through 5 for any additional users or groups.

Notes

Some permissions automatically imply the selection of others. For example, the Modify Data permission for a table automatically implies the Read Data and Read Design permissions because you need these to modify the data in a table. Modify Design and Read Data imply Read Design. For macros, Read Design implies Open/Run.
When you edit an object and save it, it retains its assigned permissions. However, if an object is saved with a new name, it is now a new object, and so has the default permissions defined for that object type rather than the permissions of the original object.

Assign default permissions for new tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros

Default permissions can be assigned only by an administrator account (a member of the Admins group in the workgroup in which the database that contains the object was created) or by the owner of the database.

Open the database.
On the Tools menu, point to Security, and then click User And Group Permissions.
On the Permissions tab, click Users or Groups, and then in the User/Group Name box, click the user or group that you want to assign permissions to.
Click the type of object in the Object Type box, and click <New object> in the Object Name list.
Select the default permissions that you want to assign for that object type, and then click Apply. Repeat steps 4 and 5 to assign default permissions for additional object types for the current user or group.
Repeat steps 3 through 5 for any additional users or groups, and then click OK when you have finished.

Note Some permissions automatically imply the selection of others. For example, the Modify Data permission for a table automatically implies the Read Data and Read Design permissions because you need these to modify the data in a table. Modify Design and Read Data imply Read Design. For macros, Read Design implies Open/Run.