Title: decrypt password in list
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# decrypt password in list

 *  Resolved [Franz Josef Kaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/f-j-kaiser/)
 * (@f-j-kaiser)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrypt-password-in-list/)
 * Hi,
 * I´m trying to make a list of users on a private page. In this list i got the 
   user name and the user password/user_pass. My problem is now, that i can only
   display the encrypted password. Does anyone know how to get the decrypted version
   displayed?
 * Thanks a lot!
 * Ps. Here´s my current code.
 *     ```
       global $wp_roles;
       foreach( $wp_roles->role_names as $role => $name ) {
         echo '<thead> <tr> <th>Nicename</th> <th>Displayname</th> <th>Passwort</th> </tr> </thead>';
         echo '<tbody>';
       $this_role = "'[[:<:]]".$role."[[:>:]]'";
         $query = "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users WHERE ID = ANY (SELECT user_id FROM $wpdb->usermeta WHERE meta_value RLIKE $this_role) ORDER BY user_nicename ASC LIMIT 10000";
         $users_of_this_role = $wpdb->get_results($query);
         if ($users_of_this_role) {
           foreach($users_of_this_role as $user) {
             $curuser = get_userdata($user->ID);
               echo '<tr><td>' . $curuser->user_nicename . '</td><td>' . $curuser->display_name . '</td><td>' . $curuser->user_pass . '</td></tr>';
       echo '</tbody>';
       ```
   

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 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrypt-password-in-list/#post-1387429)
 * Part of the reasoning behind encrypting the password in the first place is so
   it can’t be deciphered by anyone who gets the encrypted string…
 * The answer is, you can’t, else any WordPress admin would be able to read his/
   her users passwords.. which could be passwords they use often (can you imagine
   the implications of that)…
 *  Thread Starter [Franz Josef Kaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/f-j-kaiser/)
 * (@f-j-kaiser)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrypt-password-in-list/#post-1387435)
 * [@t31os_](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/): Thanks for your answer.
   I got your point. But how can it be that the password, that the user receives
   after a reset per mail, is plain text? There has to be some function that converts
   it… or not?
 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrypt-password-in-list/#post-1387443)
 * It sends you the password before all the encryption stuff happens.
 * Resetting auto generates a password, again it just sends you the pre-encrypted
   version… once the email is sent, it’s sent to the database and encrypted using
   MD5 (assuming no errors occured)..
 *  Thread Starter [Franz Josef Kaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/f-j-kaiser/)
 * (@f-j-kaiser)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrypt-password-in-list/#post-1387444)
 * [@t31os_](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/): Thanks for your answer!
   This makes sense (in other case than mine > i have to the register the users &
   set the password myself). Thanks anyway!

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 * Last reply from: [Franz Josef Kaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/f-j-kaiser/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrypt-password-in-list/#post-1387444)
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