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Topic: Lost Administrator password

Posted By: flying wing
Subject: Lost Administrator password
Date Posted: 18 September 2003 at 3:25am

Hi all,

I forgot my user name and password as Administrator of my forum.

I try to open the dadabase file but I get massage that my Access version in wrong.

Please help.

Thanks

Replies:

Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 18 September 2003 at 5:42am

If you open it with Access 2000 or above it should work ok. It should then allow you to change the value

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Posted By: flying wing
Date Posted: 18 September 2003 at 7:59am

I have Access 2000 but it not open or imported!!!

Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 18 September 2003 at 8:51am

Have you tried opening it on another machine, that has Access 2000 installed

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Posted By: flying wing
Date Posted: 18 September 2003 at 8:59am

Yes, Itry but...nothing.

You want me to send you the file?

Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 18 September 2003 at 10:55am

flying wing wrote:

Yes, Itry but...nothing.

You want me to send you the file?

Yes you can send it to me . I will send you my email address via Private Message...

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Posted By: God_Struth
Date Posted: 18 September 2003 at 12:02pm

If email notify is on can you not just request it?

Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 18 September 2003 at 3:20pm

God_Struth wrote:

If email notify is on can you not just request it?

I think that is his problem here. It would appear that he has been hacked. The passwords are really long "just a whole bunch of numbers" so I guess someone must have gotten it and changed something in his db

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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 18 September 2003 at 3:31pm

The passwords are encrypted.

The only way to get the password is to do a lost password request.

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Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 18 September 2003 at 3:54pm

Could you do this:

Create a new account with the password you want to use.
Go into the database, and copy the encryted password of the user you just created to the password field of the Admin account.
Try logging in to the Admin account with that password.

In theory, depending on how it encrypts it, you might be able to log in.

Also, a word of advice. Have more than one Admin account, one that is not obvious.

For example, I never login using the main Admin account. I use an account I created with Admin rights. If one gets trashes, I still have the other.

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