About to decrypt password

[satimis]

Hi folks,

What will be the easy way to decrypt encrypted passwords on MySQL table. Googling brought me many suggestions on crypt/decrypt running scripts. Please advise. TIA

Note:
I think the encrypt function of MySQL uses the Unix crypt command to encrypt

B.R.
satimis

[brunson]

Crypt is a misnomer, the passwords are not encrypted, they are cryptographically hashed. You cannot reverse the hash process, you can only guess the original text.