I have two mail files that were locally encrypted and I need to have Reader access to them. I was talking to another admin here at my office, who suggested that there is a way to copy the NSF to the server, turn on/off some NOTES.INI setting, which would allow us to read the encrypted database. Does that sound familiar to anyone?
Subject: Reading an encrypted file
If it’s locally encrypted, you need to open it using the ID file that encrypted it. You can then decrypt the file by changing the encryption settings (Basics tab of the Database Properties), then compact the database. Without the correct ID, though, no level of ACL access will let you read the database. (You may be able to retrieve the ID from a password recovery database if you can’t find it anywhere else.)
Subject: RE: Reading an encrypted file
Thanks Stan. We’re trying to retrieve the original id and password.
Subject: Reading an encrypted file
Nope. You cannot get around encryption. You’ll need to have the ID that encrypted the database to read it.
Now if it was encrypted by the server’s ID, then all you need is to have an administer either decrypt it, or add you to the ACL list. But if it was indeed encrupted by someone on their client with their own ID, only that ID can read it.
Do your administrators have a backup copy of the original ID and password ?
Subject: RE: Reading an encrypted file
We maintain the original user.id and password; we are trying that as well and need to recertify since they are more than two years old. Just wanted to check out the other admin’s info. Thanks for the help.