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So, I've been playing with asp:PasswordRecovery and discovered I really don't like it, for several reasons:
1) Alice's password can be reset even without having access to Alice's email. A security question for password resets mitigates this, but does ...
Started by Brian on
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Why would sending a plain-text link to a recovery page through email be any better than sending a plain-text password through email? Either way, somebody with access to the email address can gain access to the account, whether it's through....
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Does anyone know of a free open source recovery tool? Should include recovery of document protection password ideally.
EDIT: I'll settle for just Free instead of free and open source :) I'm looking for something that will handle not only passwords used...
Started by squillman on
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I'm on a Linux box....
Simply open Microsoft Script Editor and replace the contents of the UnprotectPassword value with nothing .
Document form protection is a lot easier to break than document opening protection .
This one is free, although not open source.
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I am looking for some guidance on implementing a password recovery service in ASP.NET that emails a link to the user which sends them to a password reset page as I don't want to email existing or regenerated passwords in cleartext.
I have seen some suggestions...
Started by Andy Rose on
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It should.
Read this: Best Practices for your "Forgot Password" feature .
They forget their passwords.
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Hi, In my application, the password is encrypted and if the user forgets the password , there is no way to recover the password.Now we are cancelling that user account and creating a new one.Now i want a proper method to recover the password.The login...
Started by Nandini on
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Normally you'd generate a new password & send that to the user as well as encrypting it & placing it into the database with the right password? If so....
The idea is that no one can decrypt the password (including the database owner).
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Currently we use Offline NT Password & Registry Editor for machines we do not have admin passwords for. It is a really nice tool but has some flaws. Is there something better/more modern?
Started by Terry on
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So, even if the machine is disconnected.
password, and is never given to anyone for any reason.
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I need to login in as an administrator to my Dell Lattitude E6500 running WinXP Pro. Any ideas? Of course I don't know the password.
Started by grigy on
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I think the chntpw site has a bootable disc also that specialized just in resetting the password, and RIP ....
Chntpw /mnt/hda1/WINDOWS/system32/config/SAM" and accept the options to clear the password administrator has no password.
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When I try to access my ASP.NET password recovery page, I get the following error:
Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your...
Started by Andy on
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Is the name of the class defined in ForgotPassword.aspx.cs actually... .
This can sometimes happen when file or project names change and class or namespaces aren't updated .
You may be able to fix this by simply cleaning and rebuilding the entire solution .
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Hi, I don't want to have the security question and answer feature that ASP.Net Membership Provider gives, but I DO want to enable a lost/forgotten password page.
This page would be where a user would enter his/her email address and an email would be sent...
Started by Nissan on
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User.ResetPassword(); }
then I added a new method to use this value to change the password
public bool.
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I am trying to recover the password for one of the logins on a SQL 2005 (SP3) database. There seem to be a large number of tools out there to do this.
I'm a little nervous of running a tool against a live database server that I don't know much about.
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Started by ilivewithian on
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The NGS software just takes the password hash from the row in syslogins, so it doesn't tinker, and I'd use it only as a last resort....
I've used the NGS software and it works provided the password isn't too hard.
That you can compile yourself.
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I have a .db file that I think is a SyBase database file that I have been tasked with extracting data from. Looking at the file in notepad shows that the data in not encrypted (I can read text strings from it) but I don't have the username/password to...
Started by BCS on
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You tried the default username (dba) and password (sql)? You'd be surprised how many people are too, there are no tools that Sybase supplies that can access the data without supplying a valid user name / password.
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