Passwords (1 Viewer)

[PeterWieland]

Hi,

I need to get into an old database that was written by a previous employee and locked up tight, and no-one can remember the password. I know the password for a very restricted user, but there are not enough rights on this user to do anything useful. I can get into the back-end, but the info I want was stored in the front-end (God knows why!), and I can't even open that without running it with the .mdw file. I can open the .mdw file on it's own, but the tables are hidden, but the queries are visible, so I can get a list of users, passwords and SIDs. However, the password field is encrypted, and just shows what appear to be random Japanese or Chinese characters. I have tried to delete the password, but nothing happens when I press delete. I guess that I don't have rights to modify data.

Is there any way to decode these passwords?

 

[ColinEssex]

Search for "forgotten password" - I'm sure someone posted some code to do this somewhere

Col

 

[PeterWieland]

Thanks Colin, but all of the code posted, as well as the utils available on the web, are for a password on an .mdb file, not the .mdw