His computer got hacked so he brought a new one?! That made me LOL! Does he really know nothing about computers :p

If only people learnt to read the "Forgotten Password" text. Oh wait isn't it displayed on every failed login page?
Hmmmm something doesn't smell right. :confused:

cool so ill they send him his pass via email?

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oh wait this happens when i click send pass to email for his account:
The requested URL /login.php was not found on this server.

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and he says this doesnt send him his odl pass which is what he wants

No, I don't have time to d/l 60 gigs of rainbow tables. :)

Whoever thinks they can get users passwords after encryption must have some talent, as far as I know its virtually impossible & if someone has worked that out it would have taken some time & effort to do so which worries me as why would someone go to that trouble? I really wouldnt want to know either. All i would say is that if I was the persons user of the forum, I would be seriously concerned.

You can't you only have the option to reset passwords. Why do you need to know the exact old password anyway? All options will be available by resetting the password.

nah cos he used it for like all the forums then he had one for games on one for ebay, amazon ect. so he asked me to get it for him but nvm lol this seems to have caused to much contorversey

I try do that
It work if password was english
go to phpmyadmin
then open user table you will find password as MH5
all what you need know convert it from mh5 to real entry
there are many tool crack mh5 try google

as I say I try this with english just

and maybe not work now

ok so can anyone recomend a good tool to crack this?

BTW this is what my password file says:
password varchar(50) latin1_swedish_ci No

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wait ok so i see his pass it is something like this:
cfed53f0c485700bd1e717160ec4499f

how can i turn this into real letters?

You seem to be missing what everyone is saying. You cannot. What is stored is not the password, not really even a encrypted version of the password, but a hash of it. This is a one way function, you cannot recover the text based on it.

Heres a suggestion.. Which may help you.. where the forms are for user login why not just add another function that records what they entered if everything validates as true?