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by Isinlor 2786 days ago
Why would you want to see actual user password if you can not see it?

If you see a password you can leak it by screwing up in numbers of ways. If you never see a password you just can't leak it.

E.g. Twitter recently discovered that they were storing passwords in plaintext in logs, GitHub had similar issue.

Take a look here: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/twitt...

Of course, a hash that you will recive from client should be treated as a normal password including all good practices.