Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to How i read password of the users table?

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Posted by Jonathan Ellis on 03/04/02 10:39 PM
I believe 4.x stores hashed passwords similar to the way /etc/passwd does.  So you can't get the original password back out; you can only hash a user-supplied password and see if it matches.