lost openoffice.org password

[Marc Lijour]

Le June 11, 2004 04:55 pm, Lennart Sorensen a écrit :
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 04:36:28PM -0400, Marc Lijour wrote:
> > Right.
> > I am afraid my student will not share your enthusiasm about strong
> > passwords this time....
> >
> > Thanks for your confirmation.
>
> If the password length (or approximate length) is known, and an idea of
> which characters and/or numbers and/or symbols might have been used, you
> can always try brute forcing it. :)

What happened is interesting.
I tried to open it at home with StarOffice7 (free for edu, thanks SUN!). And 
the window appeared with the OK button active, I just clicked on it and it 
worked (it was a blank password).
While at school it did not work for some reason ; the OK button was inactive, 
and there was no way to enter a blank password!
We use a collection of OOo from 1.0.1 to 1.1 and SO7 and their behaviour 
differs regarding blank passwords. (No I am not the admin, this is taken by 
the board.)
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