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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: alvarotovar on May 17, 2012, 09:57:20 am

Title: i have lost my password for my eap file
Post by: alvarotovar on May 17, 2012, 09:57:20 am

Hello
I have a old .eap file, and i don't know the password for this file, is there a way to open the file without the password? o a password recovery or craker?
thanks

Title: Re: i have lost my password for my eap file
Post by: Wyatt on May 17, 2012, 11:07:51 am

I recommend you back up your EAP before attempting anything "interesting".

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=retrieve+password+access&oq=retrieve+password+access&aq=0K&aqi=g-K4&aql=&gs_l=hp.3.0.0i30l4.0.0.1.520.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0.ajAQbwCPnP0&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=fcb9ac591ad832df&biw=1236&bih=565

First result:

http://www.everythingaccess.com/accesspasswordretrievallite.htm

Title: Re: i have lost my password for my eap file
Post by: Aaron B on May 17, 2012, 12:34:26 pm

Do you know if it's a database-level password, or is it EA's User Security feature that is prompting?  Is EA just asking for a password when opening the file, or a username and password?

If asking for a username and password, it is most likely just EA's User Security.  Try entering "admin" and "password" (these are the default credentials created by EA when security is first enabled).  If that fails, please contact [email protected] and we should be able to provide some further guidance.

Title: Re: i have lost my password for my eap file
Post by: philchudley on May 17, 2012, 06:29:56 pm

You could modify the underlying table structure directly, by

setting the column [highlight]UserSecurity[/highlight] in the table [highlight]t_secpolices[/highlight] to anything other than Enabled

This may fool EA into believing that there is no security and hence no prompt for password.

However the passwords will still be set in[highlight] t_secuser[/highlight] table

So a drastic move would be to remove all rows from[highlight] t_secpolicies, t_secuser[/highlight] and [highlight]t_secusergroup[/highlight]

and then start all over with the security

Best of luck

Cheers

Phil

Title: Re: i have lost my password for my eap file
Post by: qwerty on May 17, 2012, 08:11:38 pm

I can confirm what Phil said: just clear t_secpolicies and security is turned off. I have a section about user security in my book (see link below). You can also copy a known user password to your admin's password.

(Or set the admin password to  5PDCD_FT which will enable the standard password)


q.

Title: Re: i have lost my password for my eap file
Post by: alvarotovar on May 18, 2012, 12:04:36 am

many thanks to all, i used admin / password and i open the file.
a lot of thanks