Avi

One of our users has copied his Personal Folders (PST) on to a CD and has forgotten the password he used to protect them , anyone know how to get round this >?

Andy

ChrisB

Try something like http://www.lostpassword.com

IIRC, the demo version will crack passwords upto 4 characters long.

HTH,

Chris.

Avi

Demo will only crack upto 2 characters .. anyone any other ideas? Can't justify paying that much really

Andy

You can mail me offline if you wish
andy@aviz.co.uk

ozzy

Andy,

You need the pst19upg.exe file from TechNet apparently.

http://www.ntsecurity.net/Articles/I...ArticleID=5101

Hopefully the user password is < 4 chars and the demo software will crack it.

Stefan

P.S. Give them a good slap for being so thick

shunty

as Ozzy states that exe works great, never failed for me. It creates a backup file, funnily enough it wasn't designed as a password stripper that was only a side effect....nice

shunty

Comedy_Gaz

Look for a .pwd value in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PST in the windows registry. It should say the password.

shunty

Comedy Gaz - what OS have you tried this on ?
I have XP & this doesn't work, to be honest I would have been surprised if it had

shunty

ozzy

Shunty,

That sounds more like a W95/98 password thing, although I haven't tried it on anything other than NT. Doesn't work on NT4, W2K or XP

AFAIK the password's only stored in the .PST file itself and not anywhere in the registry. The CLASSES_ROOT is a local machine key and all the mail settings are held on a per-user basis in the KHEY_USERS keys.

So, I don't see how that would work unfortunately.

Stefan

DominicA

r u sure he just can't open them because they're read-only on the CD????

ozzy

LOL, that would be funny

You should get an obsure error if you try to open the .PST file as Read-Only. I think it comes up as 'file access denied' in Outlook XP, but it's a odd one in previous versions.

Stefan

shunty

shunty

NickAdams

iTrader: (5)

The version I have of pst19upg.exe does not have any limitation as far as password length goes as I've used it on one of my clients machines and besides it strips the password out anyway.Drop me a mail if you want a copy of it?

Here's the readme file that came with it:

This utility was originally designed to upgrade the PST format to
version 19. One of the utilities side effects is that it can strip out
PST passwords.

Always make a backup of the PST BEFORE using. Since this utility wasn't
designed for this purpose, use it to strip passwords at your own risk.
There have been instances where the utility has caused damage to a PST.

This is a two step process and requires 3 times the hard drive space
that the PST currently occupies.


Instructions for stripping PST passwords:

1. Run: PST19UPG -x filename.pst
This process creates a new file with the name of: filename.psx

2. Run: PST19UPG -i filename.psx
This process creates another new file with the name of: filename.pst
after renaming the original filename.pst to the name of: filename.bak


Good luck!

Nick..

Scooby-Doo

I have used pst19 on NT4 many times and never had any problems.

Avi

Done it now using a prog called Passware.

Tried using the .exe file everyone suggested , but it came up with errors tring to convert from psx to pst.

Thanks

Andy

shunty

Avi - I have used pst19 on 2000 as well, worked every time.
Anyway nice to see youv'e sorted it, I'll have to have a look @ passware now & see what it's like

shunty

Comedy_Gaz

It works on 9x. But with only some files.