[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: progress reset password to sysprogress for progress data explorer

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Just a thought: From the notes in the KB > knowledgebase.progress.com/.../P9483 . If there is only one Security Administrator configured, and the password is lost or forgotten, other users are not able to make change on Edit User List... and Security Administrators. There is no backdoor password to get into the system as an Administrator. If the original Security Administrator Password is lost and there are no other users with Security Administrator privileges the database will have to be dumped and loaded to redefine the user and security administrator contents. If you are able to dump the data definition and other stuff like sequence current values with the blank userid ( which can be disabled in the security settings of the database - data administration tool ), then the only thing you can do is: - Dump the contents of the database ( ascii for stuff like sequence current values and ascii or binary for table contents ) - Build a new database - Load the contents of the database

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