Getting the password from Wordpress to pass back to RemotePost class

Question

Hi

Does anyone know how to get the uname and esp the psword from Wordpress to pass into the remotepost.class.php

eg private $uname = $current_user->user_login; private $pass = '???';

This is related to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2695323/how-to-use-metaweblog-newpost-xmlrpc-api-properly-with-php

Answer 1

As Tim Post says, you can't get the password. In any good system, passwords are hashed rather than encrypted. Hashing is a one-way function - you cannot un-hash a hashed password, which prevents those with access to a user database from knowing the stored passwords.

On top of this, Wordpress applies a salt to the password before hashing, so even if it was possible to un-hash the password, you'd need to know which part is the password and which part is the salt.