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Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Password Recovery for VSS

This is a double edge sword - hopefully people won't use it in evil ways... However, it can be used for good, too.

1. In case the VSS keeper leaves the company
2. In case you find an old VSS database to which you no longer know the password
3. In case you forget the VSS Password
4. In case you change the password and you type in wrong... twice!!!
5. In case a disgruntle employee changes the password prior to being escorted off the premises

I post the good reasons why it's important to be able to recover a VSS password - I'm sure you can think of all the evil reasons to recover the password on your own.

I found a good password recovery tool for Visual Source Safe (more like an article) on: http://dotnet.org.za/gangatha/articles/19185.aspx