Password recovery with sha1 password hashing

hash, password-protection, php

Solution

Short answer, you can't.

You want to implement a password reset function, not a password retrieval function. The whole point of hashing passwords is that you don't get to store the user's password, and you can't recover it if it is lost.

This should give you a rough idea of how to allow users to reset forgotten passwords:

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