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Help! Removing a password from personal folder.

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I have a user that somehow put a damn password on a new personal folder and, well, she can't remember it...

I've tried pst19upg, which is a free hit-or-miss utility, and it worked in some test runs on my comp but for her PST, it doesn't work.

Can anyone reccomend a utility, either free or cost, which will work with Outlook 2000 and 2003?
 
Sorry you won't find cracking help here. I suggest you search for it else where. These threads don't go over well.

Cheers,
 
What the heck?! Cracking? I working for a freaking enterprise company providing support and our exchange team doesn't have any tool to recover PST passwords, so my team is going to have to purchase a software through our own budget... which is WHY I am looking for reccomendations on something that will work.

Don't try to be a knight in shining armor.
 
versello said:
What the heck?! Cracking? I working for a freaking enterprise company providing support and our exchange team doesn't have any tool to recover PST passwords, so my team is going to have to purchase a software through our own budget... which is WHY I am looking for reccomendations on something that will work.

Don't try to be a knight in shining armor.
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Ok. How do you think it sounds. "I need help breaking a password on a PST file" Sorry to me it sounded funny. If it was legitimate than my bad, but piss off with the scarcastic comments.
 
Hey Eightball,

If you haven't noticed, the title of his post is "Help! Removing a password from personal folder." which has absolutely nothing to do with cracking. I'll clue you in on a keyword: REMOVING. And in the grand scheme of things, REMOVING does not equal CRACKING. To which extent that you went to in order to percieve cracking I'm not sure. Removing a password and cracking a password both have their own respective approaches that are not very similar. One process is assuming you're intending on breaking into something. The other, which is perhaps also the car on the clue train that missed you, is assuming you have ownership of the element. Plus, he's only looking for programs to do it, not explicit documentation on how to crack Soviet nuclear missile codes. Life has scored a point on you.
 
Schmoman said:
Hey Eightball,

If you haven't noticed, the title of his post is "Help! Removing a password from personal folder." which has absolutely nothing to do with cracking. I'll clue you in on a keyword: REMOVING. And in the grand scheme of things, REMOVING does not equal CRACKING. To which extent that you went to in order to percieve cracking I'm not sure. Removing a password and cracking a password both have their own respective approaches that are not very similar. One process is assuming you're intending on breaking into something. The other, which is perhaps also the car on the clue train that missed you, is assuming you have ownership of the element. Plus, he's only looking for programs to do it, not explicit documentation on how to crack Soviet nuclear missile codes. Life has scored a point on you.
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Yes it does. If I had PST file that I wanted kept secret from other people hence the reason that its encryptable in the first place, I don't want other people getting into it now right. If the information was that important that needed encrypting than forgetting a password wouldn't be an option. As for a secure network, an exchange server would be the best an most manageable type. That way each mailbox is secure on the server, and Admins have the ability to change the domain password. Personnal PST files are not server side documents. So first off, BRUTE FORCE password removal IS cracking. Its an ENCRYPTED file. Explain how you your magicly remove a password without knowing it. Also there is no easy way of removing a password from a PST file, which BTW is a Outlook "Personal Folder File" in case you had it confused with a "Personal Folder".

To the Original poster, if your intentions where honrable, than my appologies, but as you see my first thought, as someone experienced with electronic security it seemed a little odd. No harm, I do appologize.

As for the quoated poster, I think you need to do a little more studying before spouting off from the hip.

Oh and P.S. its Eigtball not Eightball.

Cheers,
 
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Yes it does. If I had PST file that I wanted kept secret from other people hence the reason that its encryptable in the first place, I don't want other people getting into it now right. If the information was that important that needed encrypting than forgetting a password wouldn't be an option. As for a secure network, an exchange server would be the best an most manageable type. That way each mailbox is secure on the server, and Admins have the ability to change the domain password. Personnal PST files are not server side documents. So first off, BRUTE FORCE password removal IS cracking. Its an ENCRYPTED file. Explain how you your magicly remove a password without knowing it. Also there is no easy way of removing a password from a PST file, which BTW is a Outlook "Personal Folder File" in case you had it confused with a "Personal Folder".

To the Original poster, if your intentions where honrable, than my appologies, but as you see my first thought, as someone experienced with electronic security it seemed a little odd. No harm, I do appologize.

As for the quoated poster, I think you need to do a little more studying before spouting off from the hip.

Oh and P.S. its Eigtball not Eightball.

Cheers,
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eigtball is 100% correct ..This is the same as when someone says " I lost my COA for my install can you help me"

There's no way for us to be sure and its better to err on the safe side.
 
Its simple

these are public forums, and SJConsultant handled it exactly like it should be
privately. Eigtball is correct, thats cracking, any way you cut it, irregardless of the authority you might have to do it, but here is the rub, while as a sysadmin you can legally hack your own system, posting links to the vast number of tools to do it, or discussing it is very boarderline here, same as say doing a security audit of a network

intention is really the only differentiator

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