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Re: viewing passwords as root

From: Paul DuBois (paulmysql.com)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2008 - 12:18:01 CDT


At 12:49 PM -0400 4/17/08, Pam Astor wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is there a way to view mysql user passwords once logged in as the
>MySQL root user in v 5.0.22? Or are they encrypted even from the
>MySQL toot user?

It's one-way encryption. You cannot see them.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/encryption-functions.html#function_password
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