How to decrypt user password ?

[Mahesh23]

Hello Community,

How to decrypt the user password using script ?

I am trying below script but its not working

var gr = new GlideRecord('sys_user');
gr.get(gs.getUserID())
var Encrypter = new GlideEncrypter(); 
var decrypted = Encrypter.decrypt(gr.user_password);  
gs.print(decrypted);

[Mark Roethof · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

This does not work for the password field on sys_user (which is of type Password (1 Way Encrypted)).

This would work on for example the basic_auth_credentials table for the password field (which is of type (Password (2 Way Encrypted)).

If my answer helped you in any way, please then mark it as helpful.

Kind regards,
Mark
2020-2022 ServiceNow Community MVP
2020-2022 ServiceNow Developer MVP

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[Mahesh23]

Hello Mark,

Thanks for the response, could you please share any other scripts which decrypt the user password ?

[Mark Roethof]

For sys_user, you can't.

If my answer helped you in any way, please then mark it as helpful.

Kind regards,
Mark
2020-2022 ServiceNow Community MVP
2020-2022 ServiceNow Developer MVP

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[Mahesh23]

Okay, Thank you

As Password field in sys_user table is type password. is there any way to decrypt password of password2 type field ?