Lost admin user name and password
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Topic: Lost admin user name and password
Posted By: adam12
Subject: Lost admin user name and password
Date Posted: 05 March 2003 at 3:55pm
I forgot my admin user name and password. How can I get it back?
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Posted By: boyohboy
Date Posted: 05 March 2003 at 4:19pm
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How come my first post doesn't have ------------- Visit my community website @ http://www.everythingviet.com - EverythingVIET.com |
Posted By: boyohboy
Date Posted: 05 March 2003 at 4:21pm
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HA it appears that only the last post has button delete. I don't know what the intention behind that is. ------------- Visit my community website @ http://www.everythingviet.com - EverythingVIET.com |
Posted By: fernan82
Date Posted: 05 March 2003 at 5:03pm
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If you're using v6 you can just download the database and look for the password on it.......if you're using v7 then you can create a new account with a password, then download the db and change the admin password for the one of the account you've just made (encrypted - using copy & paste), then try to login with the new password... |
adam12 wrote:Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 06 March 2003 at 5:22am
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The reason for this is so that people don't go back and delete a pervious post once someone has replied to it, when people could do this it was found that people often did delete posts once someone had replied it then makes the whole topic rather startnge as people are replying to posts that have been deleted and so it doen't make sense. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 06 March 2003 at 5:32am
are you SURE that will work? since i used that "Convert Database" thing, and i had a couple accounts with the same password and they were all encrypted differently so i dunno if that would work but couldnt you change the level of the new account, making it become a Admin Account, then delete the old one? |
Posted By: adam12
Date Posted: 06 March 2003 at 8:00am
| I got it, I just copied over my orginal db and it worked. Another a nother note. How can you tell what image or button is msiing from your forum? Someon the images are not coming up and I think I may have not uploaded them. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 06 March 2003 at 8:04am
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Right click on the image place holder and choose properties. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 06 March 2003 at 8:05am
| not sure wot you ment but you can right click on the pic then click properties and it'll give ya the name of the file |
Posted By: adam12
Date Posted: 06 March 2003 at 8:14am
| That got it, thanks. |
Posted By: andrewtn
Date Posted: 06 March 2003 at 12:16pm
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If anybody loses their password and they use version7 they should add a new user with a password that you know. Then open the database and go to TLBAUTHOR table. Find the new user you added and copy the PASSWORD and then the SALT of the new user and past them where the current password and salt is for Administrator. If you copy just the encrypted password it will not work. You must copy that password and the salt. Hopes this helps someone as my Administrave password became corrupted when I upgraded to 7. |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 06 March 2003 at 1:17pm
| That is the problem with Access, there is pretty much no way to 100% secure it. With SQL you can make the password field a binary which gives it some additional safety. Not having looked at the hash code to much, there should be a way of altering the salt value to a checksum of other values that would only work with the userid the user has. this way the salt would be explicit for a userid thus you would need to get the userid before actually entering those fields. |