[9501] in bugtraq
Re: Microsoft Access 97 Stores Database Password as Plaintext
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Cox)
Fri Feb 12 12:50:42 1999
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:37:04 -0500
Reply-To: Will Cox <Will_Cox@IMAGEINC.COM>
From: Will Cox <Will_Cox@IMAGEINC.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 sozni@USA.NET wrote:
> The problem is that Access allocates the the space it needs for its tables
> but until used, that space will contain whatever used to be on those
> sectors on the hard drive.
Sounds like a problem with the OLE/COM rather than Access to me.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q139/4/32.asp
http://www1.macintouch.com/o98security.html
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q189/3/76.asp
But that doesn't seem to have much bearing on the password storage.
/cwc
