[Building Sakai] How to retrieve password of sakai user

[Bryan Holladay]

ha this sounds like a phishing email :)  Even if you could get the
password, personally as a user, I wouldn't want any IT person being
able to retrieve my passwords.  Password reset is the way to go.

-Bryan

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Ali Jan <sakaicle at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to write a webservice that will retrieve password of given user.
>
> what algorithm is for password hashing.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You can't, you'll have to either reset it for them in the Admin Users
>> tool, or use the reset password tool and they can do it themselves.
>> Or use the web services.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> On 27/03/2012, at 11:50 PM, Ali Jan wrote:
>>
>> > HI
>> >
>> > How to retrieve password of a sakai user.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks
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