decoding a password

[ndog4ever]

I have a php admin interface page to control access to some of my pages. What i am wondering is this, i have an update page that lets me update a user's login name/password, but the password is encrypted. Is there a way to pass that password without the encryption so i can just tell the user what he/she password is?

Thanks for any help

 

[iTST]

Paswords are stored using md5 hashes, which is a one way encryption. you can find out the password by encrypting random strings and compare these with the one in the database /this is usually called a brute force attack).

Err, I dont realy recommend to do this. It takes too much time and isnt worse the information. cu, Sascha

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