By design, the passwords that PDshop stores are encrypted.  This means if you try to open the database using your own program or scripts you have written, you might not be able see the passwords or they may be encrypted.  However, there are ways to turn off encryption as well as decrypt the passwords using our functions.

PDshop has its own encryption functions built in, that you can call to encrypt or decrypt the passwords, or you can disable the encryption (might be easier).

To disable the encryption just open the web.config file and see this line,
<add key="cryptpass" value="pdshoppro" /> and remove the value like this:
<add key="cryptpass" value="" />

If you want to encrypt your passwords, you would need to call the pdcrypt function, for example code like this:  newpasswordvalue=pd.pdcrypt(originalpasswordvalue), but some knowledge of scripting is really needed to do this, see the developers guide which may help out some (See Link Below).

NOTE: Above is for experienced developers and web masters with some prior knowledge & understanding of ASP scripting and databases.  PageDown Technology's support does not cover issues related to programming such as this.

Article Applies to: ASP.NET (Microsoft's .NET)