decrypt/get sql user password

I have a sql server 2005 database server. I have administrative access(sa access) however I need the password to a specific account on the server. I can't really reset the password to this account because it would break some applications.

Is there anyway to get the decrypted password from the sql server?

There are ways to do it which involve attaching a debugger to the SQL Server and basically crashing the SQL Server so that you can get into the memory that SQL Server is using which will have the plain text password in memory.

It'll be much easier to get the password from the .NET source code.

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