Employee left---need to accessa important/v file in his user account---cant

How caan I access an employees user account as admin? Password I knew must have been changed before he left. A really vital database can't be accessed. TIA
Seth

Is your set up such that you can use the 'install disk' method on the Mac concerned? That is boot from the disk and change the PW for the specified user per the installer utilities on said disk.

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I have an iMac PowerPC G5 computer which I set with 2 accounts, one for me (the administrator) and another for some workers.
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Very interesting thank you.
I wondered if it might be possible to modify files copied into such a shared folder with the aid of an AppleScript or Automator action saved as an application
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