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2 Years before one my client given the password for a remote server available in USA, I have directly typed the password in the screen and saved the credential. Now I need to forward the same credential to another person. So is there any way I can know the saved password for that machine.

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    This is a link to a very similar topic. The answers have two links you could try. superuser.com/questions/307776/…
    – Spencer5051
    Jan 20, 2014 at 8:16
  • Why don't you ask the client?
    – Dave
    Jan 20, 2014 at 8:36
  • @DaveRook: Client changed. New person do not know the password.
    – Deepak Kumar Padhy
    Jan 20, 2014 at 8:39
  • Are you saying the client doesn't have admin access to the USA server?
    – Dave
    Jan 20, 2014 at 8:46

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I would have thought (and hoped) that the password is hashed (i.e. saved in a non reversible way).

So, unless you know it (you don't), you will have to ask for a new password from the remote site administrator (I won't even mention a brute force approach which is probably illegal).

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    The answer is wrong - passwords, on the client side, won't be stored in a hashed way, because when connecting, you're passing the orginal password to the server, which then hashes it and compares it to a stored hash (usually salted).
    – Frederik
    Jul 21, 2018 at 9:37

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