Account security

[Liz]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 16:46:33 -0400
"Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm a casual user of GNUCash, and am considering allowing other
> > people to enter data into GC accounts.
> >
> > Does GC provide security mechanisms... ie
> >
> > - password protected accounts,
> > - account encryption,
> > - logging of account access  
> 
> GnuCash is not a multi-user application.  As a result, there is no
> concept of "user accounts", because gnucash has no concept of a
> user.  The only protection you get would be standard filesystem (or
> database) protection. Similar for encryption, if you're using encFS
> then your database will be encrypted.  As for logging of actions, the
> only logging are the transaction logs, but it's designed for disaster
> recovery, not for access/auditing.


I just checked on Gnucash.org. 
The site explains what Gnucash is, but as this question does crop up
occasionally, I thought that another sentence of "What Gnucash is not"
would help people choosing accounting packages.