nope. i read somewhere that the only way to unencode such a hash requires a super computer and a very long time. although im not entirely sure if the hash is even representative of the entire string, or if it actually truncates since it is not meant to be translated back anyway. its a long complicated mess, as it is supposed to be
again, a security measure so passwords are possible, yet only the supplier of the password can know what it is. in vbulletin, you can only RESET or CHANGE the password of a user, not look it up and tell them what the old value was.
So no. The 'forgot your password?' feature in vbulletin should suffice well enough should a user forget what their password was; it will give them a new one and email it to them, to log in and switch back if they so please.
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