Mr. Cavin aka Kevin,

Are you suggesting people shouldn't give you their ideas on how to solve
your problems or was this an attempt at humour :-)?

I am a little confused



On 2009/11/19 2:56 PM, "Paul Bagyenda" <[email protected]> wrote:

> ¿Que?!
> 
> 
> On Nov 19, 2009, at 07:59, Mugarura Cavin wrote:
> 
>> Lug,
>> 
>> sometime back, i posted a problem on LUG list, i had a simple problem,
>> i had created a DBMS in mysql for a client, created a username & password and
>> registered his email, as the default.
>> 
>> The client was out of town, probably playing golf at St. Andrew's (have to
>> play there soon)
>> 
>> either i forgot the password, or he changed it, I had remote login to the
>> database, but i just couldnt hack it.
>> several kind people (several on this list) offered solutions, but they were
>> like the bridge to nowhere.My Indian friend (hacker)
>> gave me a hashcode which didnt work.
>> 
>> after thinking, i wanted to hit myself with a broom stick. Because the
>> solution was staring in my face. All i needed to do was to change his email
>> address to mine. Assuming, i had encrypted this field,
>> then i would only need to select table users, type my password, and change
>> function to md5. (every man and his dog would have got this)
>> 
>> This would have saved me a little time
>> 
>> regards
>> 
>> Cavin
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