lost openoffice.org password

Marc Lijour marc-bbkyySd1vPWsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org
Fri Jun 11 20:36:28 UTC 2004


Le June 11, 2004 01:53 pm, Lennart Sorensen a écrit :
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:17:16PM -0400, Marc Lijour wrote:
> > one of my students has added and then lost a password to an
> > openoffice.org document.
> >
> > Do you know a way of opening the document anyway?
>
> If the documentation is any good, it seems to indicate that unlike MS
> they knew what they were doing, and you are highly unlikely to breal the
> encryption on an openoffice document.  They say rather clearly that you
> better not loose your password when you password protect an OOo
> document.
>
> That is why people use passwords in the first place right?
>
> Lennart Sorensen

Right.
I am afraid my student will not share your enthusiasm about strong passwords 
this time....

Thanks for your confirmation.
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