title: How to Retrieve the password from asp.net membership provider from DB
body: <p>I want to retreive users passwords from the db , I tried something like this :</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT password, passwordformat, passwordsalt
  FROM aspnet_membership am
  INNER JOIN aspnet_users au
      ON (au.userid = am.userid)
  INNER JOIN aspnet_applications aa
      ON (au.applicationId = aa.applicationid)
   WHERE au.username = 'xxxxxxxxxxx'
  AND aa.ApplicationId = 'xxxxxxxxxx'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the query returns the hashed password , Is there any way i can get the original password not the hashed one. Thnx</p>