password expiration

please, I need an urgent help in my vb6.0 coding. I designed a form that has a textbox for entering of password. this form has a command button. I want three different passwords to access this project; let us assume that when each person types the correct password in the textbox and click on the command button then a message is displayed using the message box (e.g "you are welcome") the passwords might be "john" "paul" and "peter" for the first, second, and third person respectively; these are the correct passwords. On the second attempt when the user types the same correct password and clicks on the command button then an error message will be displayed telling the user that the password has already expired. My problem in this program is how to write the vb-code that will only allow the three different users to login only once after which their passwords bocome invalid or expire. please, I need a clear explaination on this. I love you all. from Ken. <email address removed by moderator, to protect from spam bots>.


please, I still need your help in another problem. I want to design a form in vb6.0; this form will have labels on it. I want to use the labels to capture the time and the date of an event (e.g a click event). My problem is on how to save the time and date that is captured by the labels. This means that I want to save this form so that after closing the form and probably shutt the computer down then the exact time and date that was captured by the labels will be seen any other time I switch on the computer and then open the form. thanks for your kindness in helping me. please, don't forget that this is an urgent issue.

For your passwords thing.
Lets assume that your 3 people have used the first passwords and then these passwords are rendered useless. After them, what passwords will the next 3 users use? Are they static (not changing), or dynamic (change with time/circumstances) or do you read them from a database?

Welcome to the forums. :wave:

Set up a counter field in your database and log a 1 into it when the user logs in successfully. Check that counter field before you do anything else.

If it equals 1, then they have already logged in once, and you can take appropriate action.