[mdb-dev] Password "Protected" MDB files

[Tim <ti...@te...>]

I have a few (JET4) MDB files that when I open with MS Access, it asks me for a
password (which I do not know).  However I can access the structure and
most of the data, without specifying a password, using mdbtools.

Is the password protection really this poor? Or is it just that some of the
tables that are password protected, and MS Access isn't smart enough to
let me access the unprotected tables?  Or is mdbtools just recovering
old data that was written to the file before a password was added?

There are also a few columns that don't come out right when I select
data from one of the tables.  I get "ff?fff" (for the CASENUM column in
the LoanAdditional table) instead of the correct "0001234567".  Kind of
like the offset is wrong or something.  I used mdb-dump and saw "ff?fff"
several bytes further in the page than the location of the correct data.

Maybe I should give you some of the data from one of the rows I know the
table contains (COLUMN: DATA):

FILENUM: DPI01005
CASENUM: 0001234567
SUFFIX: 703
SECTION: 203B

Here is the MDB file:

	http://tetro.net/misc/dpiv30.mdb

There is no sensitive data in it.  It is a demo data set from a piece of
software I'm working with.

Oh, and I'm using the Debian unstable mdbtools packages, version 0.5-6.

   - Tim