# Is there a way to manually locate user's passwords?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-manually-locate-users-passwords/25492>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [21. Februar 2015 um 18:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-manually-locate-users-passwords/25492 "2015-02-21T18:03:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![elberet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elberet/32/122404_2.png) [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)\
**Post date:** [22. Februar 2015 um 10:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-manually-locate-users-passwords/25492/10 "2015-02-22T10:33:26Z")

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Sure, install Discourse in dev mode or, _not recommended_, export your production Discourse’s PostgreSQL’s port and poke a hole in your firewall, then connect with [pgAdmin](http://www.pgadmin.org/) and have a look around.

Oh and just to illustrate @sam’s point:

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/8/3846b3fc899480abbbba048258555a8ee3e67f7f.png)

This is my password. Have fun trying to decrypt that. 🙂

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