Getting a user's password from %USERDATA

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I see that the %Cpanel::USERDATA hashtable has a "pass" key, but this doesn't seem to ever have a value. Is there a reliable way to get a user's password, while logged in as the user, from %USERDATA or some other variable? I know when using PHP there is the $_SERVER array, but what about for Perl?

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I tested retrieving the user's password from a few different sources:

• The key-value pairs of the $_SERVER associative array in PHP
• The output of the Linux "env" command via PHP's shell_exec() function
• The key-value pairs of %Cpanel::USERDATA in Perl
• The password array element straight from Cpanel::PwCache::getpwnam() in Perl
• The output of Linux's "env" command via Perl backticks

The password showed up in both the PHP methods, and none of the Perl methods (returned a value of empty string for the REMOTE_PASSWORD key). So unless this is working as intended, I'd like to file a bug report.