MYSQL PASSWORD in reverse

hey

I am using encryption to store user's passwords.

I am making a forgot password page, but how do i find there password.

 

You would want to simply reset their password to something, rather than try to recover theirs.

 

yah. go with mdvaldosta's suggestion... doing it the way you are requesting would require a two-way encryption algorithm to encrypt the password... common algorithms like md5 is only one way...

 

I would like to recover

The way i was gonna do it, was to ask for the name, email and username, then ask them to choose a new password.

BUT

Anyone can do that.

Unless i get a new password choosen automaticly, send that to them via email.

SO how do i get an automated password picker.

 

By Googling and downloading.

Replacing is the safest thing to do. That way, only the e-mail account holder ever gets to see the new password. Secret questions are a load of BS as well (though they did help me recover my phpclasses.org password yesterday).

 

I don't remember any of my secret questions.

I will google that, I just did not know the words to google.

Thank you.

 

Got a password generator, Much better, and it forces me to build a users control panel, so they can change it.

Many thanks
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