Hi, Does postgres support any system functions that decode/decrypt the user passwords stored in pg_shadow system catalog. Is there a way to retrieve the passwords, if forgotten. Thanks in Advance. Priya __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)