Resetting previous password from database?

Hi!
I've lost my laptop a few days ago.
Then one of my friends messaged me that someone contacted him from my skype account, looking for the owner of the laptop. My friend today sent him my phone number, but now i tried to sign in to skype and realised i forgot my password. Foolishly i changed it via email, so now the finder cannot sign in to my account to get my phone number.
Is it possible to recover and reset my previous password, so that he can sign in? It would be the one before the change today at 10:55 CET. I changed it again since then, to the version I hope the original was, but i'm not sure.
Thanks, paulikaron

I haven't tried this, but there some things to think about.
1) Have you tried to capture the Exception? Is it a problem?
2) Have you tried to alter a password through JDBC? Is it a problem? To execute other DDL you have to use executeUpdate() I would assum that if you can do this it will also require an executeUpdate().
Now assuming #1 and #2 are OK
3) How are you going to change a password when the you cannot connect because the password has expired? Are you going to hard code another non-expired userid/password in the code (bad idea). Are you going to ask the user to enter some type of administrative userid/password that will allow them to change their password?
Just some thoughts, sorry I cannot help more...

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