access 2000 password recovery software

[Ted]

are there any recommendations pro or con regarding any of the products that
turn up when you google the subject heading?

thanks for any advice in advance,

-ted

 

[Alex White MCDBA MCSE]

Why do you ask?

I use one to dig me out of holes every now and again. I won't use any unless
there is a very good reason to do so, as there are passwords/security for a
reason. The sad thing for me is most of them work, it does make a mockery of
the user level security.

 

[Ted]

may i ask why you bothered to 'respond'? seriously. if you had prefaced it w/
the caveat that went something like 'assuming you have no recourse but to use
one of these fiendish mockeries of all things 'secure', then i would
say.......' then i might've rated your response as helpful. was it not
supposed to be?

regards,

-ted

 

[Alex White MCDBA MCSE]

Hi Ted,

The reason for my response was simple I was giving you the idea that they do
the job, but being a network security specialist in my job it would be
completely un-professional to describe on a open forum how to break through
a security system, and I will not be drawn on that, sorry if you are
offended by my response as that was not my intention at all, if your post
was in response to you having a legitimate problem with a lost password I
was trying to give you a bit of hope.

All the best...

 

[Ted]

alex,

thanks for all the good intentions. thank the www for making the existence
of this class of software the bane of your existence. a few choice words in a
search engine and a world of a2k password recovery software awaits one. we
have lost the password to an mdb file and are going this way as a last
resort.

regards,

-ted

 

[Alex White MCDBA MCSE]

Email me directly and I will help you.

 

[Ted]

i will _if_ our first strategy tanks.

best regards,

-ted

 

[kermit]

If I may give an instance of why.
I have been in the habit of having my developers change the .mdb extention
to .txt when then neede to e-mail a database to another developer. Worked
fine until we went to Outlook 2003 and let it apply the most current security
enhancements. Now after you save the database attachment out of the e-mail
(database.txt) to database.mdb and try to open it, it prompts for a password.
Even though no password was ever applied.! I gather that Access percieves
that Outlook opened or tried to open it as a txt file. AGRUGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!
There are ligmiate reasons to e-mail an .mdb file, even though Microsoft
dosen't seem to think so.
So I guess I will have to look for one of the above apps. to be able to do
this.

 

[Rick Brandt]

If I may give an instance of why.
I have been in the habit of having my developers change the .mdb
extention to .txt when then neede to e-mail a database to another
developer. Worked fine until we went to Outlook 2003 and let it
apply the most current security enhancements. Now after you save the
database attachment out of the e-mail (database.txt) to database.mdb
and try to open it, it prompts for a password. Even though no
password was ever applied.! I gather that Access percieves that
Outlook opened or tried to open it as a txt file.
AGRUGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!! There are ligmiate reasons to e-mail an .mdb
file, even though Microsoft dosen't seem to think so.
So I guess I will have to look for one of the above apps. to be able
to do this.

Asking for a password when none was ever applied is a form of corruption
(non-recoverable AFAIK). One known way for this to happen is to open the
file in another program (Word, Excel, etc.,) and make a change and then
save. My guess is that the equivelant of this is happening to your file
when you change the extension to txt and then Email it.

I do something similar when Emailing these files but I choose a nonsense
extension rather than one that will be a recognized file-type. I have had
no problems with that strategy.

 

[kermit]

Oh THANK YOU! the xzt extension worked!

Asking for a password when none was ever applied is a form of corruption
(non-recoverable AFAIK). One known way for this to happen is to open the
file in another program (Word, Excel, etc.,) and make a change and then
save. My guess is that the equivelant of this is happening to your file
when you change the extension to txt and then Email it.

I do something similar when Emailing these files but I choose a nonsense
extension rather than one that will be a recognized file-type. I have had
no problems with that strategy.