On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Manohar Vanga wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:42 PM, raziya begum <[email protected]>wrote: > > > is there any way to get back the password > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > Passwords are hashed using a hashing function and only the hashed value is > stored. The hash functions used are for all practical reasons irreversible. > So there is no way to recover a lost password. What you can do is ask for a > new one. >
iirc, Salted hash is what is mostly stored. There is no way to get back (or recover) the password. thanks Saifi.
