is this possible??

[Jacko]

vieiwing user passwords????

is this possible???

i know i can access them from the Database but can someone create me a form within admin CP to find by username then generate there password???

[filburt1]

No.

[Jacko]

fair enough answer..

[filburt1]

Well, it just isn't sanely possible. Search and ye shall find.

[Jacko]

i thought they were encripted?? and 1 way too??

[filburt1]

Not encrypted. Hashed, which means the only way to "unhash" them is via a brute force attack which can literally take years for some longer passwords.

[Sebastian]

filburt is right., the passwords are encrypt via md5 hash .. one way encryption, therefor it can't be reversed and i think it will take a decade to even try to decrypt it.

[assassingod]

A decade is slightly extreme (unless the user has a password with 40+ characters in it)

Atleast a month or longer for a standard password

[filburt1]

Today at 05:16 PM Sebastian said this in Post #7
filburt is right., the passwords are encrypt via md5 hash .. one way encryption, therefor it can't be reversed and i think it will take a decade to even try to decrypt it.

It is not encryption! It is a hashing algorithm! Big difference.

(I know Stefan or Chen has the same pet peeve )

[Sebastian]

yeah, but i can't pronounce that word filburt

assassingod, honeslty, it would take years even for the average 6 - 8 digit password. i read that somewhere at the php.net site.