title: Hashed passwords cannot be retrieved. Either set the password format to different type, or set enablePasswordRetrieval to false
body: <p>I got some website and now I want to get the passwords.</p>
  
  <p>I use it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"
               connectionStringName="TravelChamps" 
  enablePasswordRetrieval="true"
               enablePasswordReset="true"
               requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
               requiresUniqueEmail="false" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="6" 
               minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" passwordAttemptWindow="10" applicationName="/"             
               /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And this error happens:</p>
  
  <p><strong>Configured settings are invalid: Hashed passwords cannot be retrieved. Either set the password format to different type, or set enablePasswordRetrieval to false.</strong> </p>
  
  <p>If I use it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"
               connectionStringName="TravelChamps" enablePasswordRetrieval="false"
               enablePasswordReset="true"
               requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
               requiresUniqueEmail="false" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="6" 
               minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" passwordAttemptWindow="10" applicationName="/"             
               /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get the follwoing error:</p>
  
  <p><strong>An exception occurred retrieving your password: This Membership Provider has not been configured to support password retrieval.</strong></p>
  
  <p>I am totally confused. </p>
  
  <p>Any suggestion where I can start to work around?</p>