Re: Recover Admin password

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"intrader" <intrader@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am unable to remember the Admin password. I have tried various ways to
hack
including setting up temporary SourceSafe dbs and overwriting um.dat.
What is a way to recover this password?

Thanks

What version of VSS are we talking about? Most of the info on the Internet
is VSS6 and below.

Never had to try it, but this looks interesting ...
http://dotnet.org.za/gangatha/articles/19185.aspx

Here is another article which lists about 8 similar ways.
http://alinconstantin.homeip.net/webdocs/scc/VSS_Security.htm

hth
-ralph




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