is there anyway of converting the password file back to the password?

what's up with these script kiddie kind of questions, today?

You don't need to uncode htpasswd for a user. If you need to change this users password, you just change it.

yes just wondering if someone get there hands on the password file for it would they be able to convert it back?

how would someone get their hands on the .htpasswd file?
The only way would be if you're running some old unpatched apache version that has some kind of remote exploit or if you allow something like ssh and haven't changed the permissions on your .htpasswd file. If someone has gotten a hold of your .htpasswd, you need to to upgrade to the latest apache version and change the passwords on your .htpasswd file for that directory and change the permissions of the .htpasswd files to be inaccessible to others.

What if I owned your Red Hat 7.3?

what if you did? the last thing you need to do is to convert .htpasswd... you have complete access to the system.

Precisely. So stop throwing a tantrum in this thread.

namit: The premise of htpasswd is similar to system passwords in Unix/Linux. A hash of the password is made. The password can be cracked, but the hash cannot be reversed to enumerate the password.

I was throwing a tantrum? I'm just trying to understand why this question was asked. There's no real way to get someone's .htpasswd file unless someone's machine got owned. And if someone's machine got owned, an attacker's not going to bother with .htpasswd. The parent poster's question seemed more like wanting some tool or some way of breaking htpasswd. If this is the poster's own system, there's ways of making it so no one other than the apache process and/or the root user can see the .htaccess file. In other words, I felt I answered the question in such a way that you wouldn't have to worry about a compromised .htpasswd file.