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. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erick Stohr" <evisuale at mn.mediaone.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:36 AM Subject: [TCLUG] mysql password('') > Hello, I am using the password('mypassword') function to store > passwords, my question now is how do I pull the password un-encrypted? > Is that possible? Just looking for the SQL SELECT statement. Running > MySQL ofcourse. Thanks. > > Erick > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >