how to retrieve password in django

Question

How do we retrieve a password of an user?

u = User.objects.get(username__exact=username)
print u.password

displays sha1$f0971$441cac8

Answer 1

No, the field contains the salted hash of the password. from the string we know it's SHA1 function. If you have the password, you will be able to produce the same hash value which acts as the footprint. For security reason there should be now way to recover the password in a economical means (you can still brute force, but will take long time).,