Getting Simply Accounting's MySQL connection information

My organisation is using Simply Accounting (S.A.) as the accounting system for a larger project. I see that it's using MySQL as its back-end database. I'd like to scrape some data out of the database directly instead of through S.A.'s interface.

Is there a way I can sniff out the Username and Password that S.A. is using? Alternately, how I could I add my own account to the database, and avoid the whole thing altogether?

From serverfault CodeSlave

• You want to read this page about adding user accounts to MySQL. And then you want to add a user and grant them full rights on the S.A. database.

  From pjz

• If you can start/stop MySQL server of S.A. system, you can restart it with option --skip-grant-tables, connect with usual mysql client without knowing root password and create necessary users.

  Don't forget to restart MySQL again without --skip-grant-tables to close your server from others.

  From SergeyZh

• Got it... http://www.simplyaccounting.com/community/forums/p/5399/19091.aspx#19091

  I didn't find out how to sniff the username, but I did find out what it is and the rest of the connection info.

  connection type: TCP
  username:        sysadmin
  password:                  ''// <-- default is blank 
  database:        simply    
  host:            myMachineName
  port:            ######    ''// You can get this using the following procedure
  
  1. Open Simply Accounting
  2. Go to Help->About Simply Accounting [blah blah blah]
  3. Click on "Support Info"
  4. look in the top-right corner of the Support Info window, you will see a
     region labelled "Database Engine". The Port is listed at the bottom.
  

  Scrape away.

  Note, S.A. MUST BE OPEN for you to connect to it.

  From CodeSlave