password recovery for SyBase file

credentials sqlanywhere password-recovery sybase-asa
BCS picture BCS · Apr 8, 2009 · Viewed 8.9k times · Source

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 convince the Sybase tools to read it.

Are there any tools/procedure that just skip the credentials check?

(BTW the client owns the data so it's all legit)

Answer

Rad picture Rad · Apr 8, 2009

I'd be surprised if it were that easy to get around Sybase security ... but one never knows. Have you tried the default username (dba) and password (sql)? You'd be surprised how many people are too lethargic to change it!

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