April 7, 2003 at 4:59 pm
We have an application that has been running for several years and people rely on it. It used an Access database but now uses MSDE 2000 instead.
The company won't give us (the local staff) the "sa" password (I've tried blank) and <Domain>\Administrator doesn't work either. I can't acces it via QA or under EM.
What can I do? Password crackers?
Bill
P.S. The company recommends we back up the database by stopping the sql services then copying the mdf and ldf file. Thank them for nothing!
April 7, 2003 at 7:59 pm
Who's maintaining the user logins for SQL Server? Can you ask them to give you sysadmin access instead of giving out the sa password?
Darren
April 7, 2003 at 10:08 pm
dgermundson,
Unfortunately, no one is giving out logins! The "sa" password is apparently hardcoded in the app and users are not expected to be added!
Bill
April 7, 2003 at 10:14 pm
Don't they perform a backup to a local device?
April 8, 2003 at 5:44 am
Guess you don't have source for the app? Tried browsing the .exe with Notepad? How about just overwriting master with a clean copy and reattaching the db, call tech support tell them the app quit working, they'll have to cough up the password!
Andy
April 16, 2003 at 4:02 am
Try this, have not tried it myself but it might be helpful
April 17, 2003 at 8:32 am
There are different kinds of softwares which you need to buy licences to install. One is call Advanced password recovery tool. Try to search for downloads on google search.
Good Luck.
April 17, 2003 at 11:22 am
Ask for your Lan Id to be added to the local administrators group on the box - if they haven't changed the BUILTIN\Administrators login - that might give you Sysadmin access there.
Stanislav Petkov
April 17, 2003 at 11:02 pm
Thanks to everyone for their help.
Those bas****s have stripped the BUILTIN\Admins group form their database. Backup? They say Stop the Sql service and copy the mdf\ldf files. What a piece of **** software. I will be looking for password cracker.
Bill
April 22, 2003 at 5:45 am
Can you stop the application? What is the account of SQL services? Normally this account have administratives privileges on SQL Server. You can change the password of the account and in the service too. I did it once and worked fine. You need a special care because you don´t know what is the application´s account (i.e. can be the same of account service)
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