Recovering from a lost God password (1.8.0+)
Submitted by Tyr on Tue, 2005-01-04 16:22.
Having forgotten the god pw on my tinkering site, I went into the db to hack it out...and lo and behold, the instructions in the Guide for 1.7.x no longer applied! The new db format deprecated them. With Jav's help, I figured out how to do it with the new format.
Instructions are as follows:
Decompress your outdb and open it in your favorite editor. Look for an attribute resembling this:
attrcount 10
Reduce it by one.
Then look for something like this:
name "XYXXY" owner #1 flags "no_command wizard locked internal" derefs 0 value "XX13793169753747280487"
Delete everything between the end of the previous attribute and the !2 (signifying the start of #2). Save. Re-compress, restart your game, et voilà! You've just hacked #1's pw.
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Or you could be really bold
Or you could be really bold and do it the "Walker" way by attaching gdb to the process, setting a breakpoint on 'password_check()' (i think it is), attempting to login as #1 and when it gets to the checking the password point i believe you just type 'return 1' and it assumes the password is valid and lets you in :)
That's actually my standard
That's actually my standard approach (on unix/linux) when I help people recover the God password or someone sends me their db to look at and I don't have the God password. It's really easy if you know a little gdb and a little Penn source.