Need to see mail accounts' password?

[ozgurerdogan]

I need to find a way to decode / log to a file / see user mail account password. Can you please show me a way? I know it is hashed and not possible. But there I believe there must be a trick for that.

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

No, you cant unless you store in a text file not crypted on account creation (and i'm just wondering.. not really sure can be done that way too).

Regards

 

[zEitEr]

I need to find a way to decode / log to a file / see user mail account password. Can you please show me a way? I know it is hashed and not possible. But there I believe there must be a trick for that.

You might use TCP sniffer to see plain passwords (not SSL encrypted) if it's legal in your location.

 

[sneer]

There is possibility to retrieve passwords.
Assuming:
- you are using dovecot
- e-mail user can log into e-mail account using pop3/imap

You can set
auth_debug=yes
auth_debug_passwords=yes
into dovecot configuration, and then password will be logged to dovecot log.

More info here: http://wiki1.dovecot.org/Logging

 

[nobaloney]

More info here: http://wiki1.dovecot.org/Logging

That linked page is marked as Obsolete. Do you know if the setting will still work?

If it does work I'd be very careful about using it since it would show users passwords in plaintext in your log.

Jeff