Quoting Thomas T. Veldhouse (veldy at veldy.net): > I don't believe so. I believe that it simply stores the MD5 hash -- which > is a one-way hashing function. You have to create a new password if you > don't remember it. I normally sort the crypt(3) version of passwords in the database. I believe php has this ability and I wrote a Java version. I like to make the database tier of my application just persistent storage. I keep all the logic in the business tier. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9