A while ago, someone contacted me and asked if I had an opportunity to circumvent Maniaplanet's password protection for the map editor, because he had forgotten the passwords to his old maps and couldn't recover them.

I planned to do this video for quite a while now and now I had the time, I made it.
Here's a step-by-step manual to override Maniaplanet's protection for password protected maps/tracks:

Link: YOUTUBE LINK

I'm aware that some of you won't be happy seing that kind of "intrusive" information being published but I think, all in all, this practical advice is no endorsement for cheating or stealing, but the only actually available way to rescue maps/tracks which are valuable to you.