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Re: Determine what password is used during a login attempt

From Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>
Newsgroups comp.databases.ms-sqlserver
Subject Re: Determine what password is used during a login attempt
Date 2025-03-05 19:55 +0100
Organization Erland Sommarskog
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Anton Shepelev (anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com) writes:
> Hello, all
> 

Yeah "all", it's soooo crowded here. :-)

> For some reason beyond our understanding, an installation of
> SAP Business One on one of our servers has lost the ability
> to connect to the MSSQL database under an internal,
> automatically crated user B1_SBOCOMMON.  The Profiler
> intercepts the attempt:
> 
>   Logon Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 8.
>   Logon Login failed for user 'B1_SBOCOMMON'.
>   Reason: Password did not match that for the login provided.
>   [CLIENT: 192.168.0.193]
> 
> Is it possible determine the password it tries to use, if we
> have full admin access to that database (and the entire
> server) under the 'sa' user?

No. It's an encrypted hash. If it was reversible that would be a major
security issue. 

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Determine what password is used during a login attempt Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2025-03-05 14:28 +0300
  Re: Determine what password is used during a login attempt Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2025-03-05 19:55 +0100
    Re: Determine what password is used during a login attempt Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2025-03-06 13:35 +0300

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