On 9/5/2004 at 10:49 PM Jonathan M. Freedman wrote:

> Dear Group:
>
> what is the generally accepted mechanism for relaying passwords back
> to users if they forget theirs. apparently, given the tools i can
> locate so far, there is no easy way te decrypt the password in the
> Users table.
>
> tia
>
> jonathan
>

Most developers simply provide a method for the system administrator to change the password. It would in my opinion be a security hole to provide a method to retrieve passwords from the users table.

HTH,

Dan.