by using DPAPI,program MUST be run on USER CONTEXT.

(use impersonate to do it.)

Bulid

#for .net 2.0
%systemroot%\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\csc.exe SSMSPwd.cs
#for .net 4.0
%systemroot%\microsoft.net\framework\v4.0.30319\csc.exe /out:SSMSPwd40.exe SSMSPwd.cs

Usage

SSMSPwd [-f file] [-p path] [-all]
   -f: decrypt from specified file
   -p: path of SSMS installation
   -a: dump all saved info(only dump password information default)

Remarks

SSMS save password to a binary file using BinaryFormatter,and the type was defined on private assembly in the installation directory.

This file saved in %appdata%\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\(VERSION)\Tools\Shell on SSMS2005 or SSMS2008, %appdata%\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\(VERSION)\Tools\ShellSEM on Express Version,%appdata%\Microsoft\SQL Server Management Studio on others.its named mru.dat on SSMS2005,SqlStudio.bin on SSMS2008 to last release.

SSMS2005 saved a IDirectory named stringTable in file,the key like this:

[email protected]\SQLEXPRESS@1@sa@Password
[email protected]\SQLEXPRESS@1@sa@ET

Split by @,we can get instance,user.

If the key ends with Password,the value will be encrypted password using DPAPI and Base64Encode.

Other versions,binary file saved a big tree like:

SqlStudio
└─SSMS
  └─ConnectionOptions
      ├─ServerTypes-1
      │  ├─Servers-1
      │  │  │  Instance
      │  │  │
      │  │  ├─Connections-1
      │  │  │      Password
      │  │  │      UserName
      │  │  │
      │  │  └─Connections-2
      │  │          Password
      │  │          UserName
      │  │
      │  └─Servers-2
      │      │  Instance
      │      │
      │      └─Connections-1
      │              Password
      │              UserName
      │
      └─ServerTypes-2
          ├─Servers-1
          │  │  Instance
          │  │
          │  ├─Connections-1
          │  │      Password
          │  │      UserName
          │  │
          │  └─Connections-2
          │          Password
          │          UserName
          │
          └─Servers-2
              │  Instance
              │
              └─Connections-1
                      Password
                      UserName

We can get IDirectory and IEnumerable on nodes,the pseudocode was:

foreach ServerType in SqlStudio['SSMS']['ConnectionOptions']['ServerTypes']
{
  foreach Server in ServerType['Servers']
  {
    print Server.Instance
    foreach Connection in Server['Connections']
    {
      print Connection.UserName,Connection.Password
    }
  }
}

The Password use DPAPI and Base64Encode too.Using ProtectedData::Uprotect to decrypt it.

DONOT forget,run program on USER CONTEXT.