# Can an admin get access to passwords not shared to anyone for a user who left the company? **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Feedback\ **Created:** [May 8, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.passbolt.com/t/can-an-admin-get-access-to-passwords-not-shared-to-anyone-for-a-user-who-left-the-company/2730 "2020-05-08T19:09:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![remy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.passbolt.com/remy/32/17_2.png) [@remy](https://community.passbolt.com/u/remy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.passbolt.com/t/can-an-admin-get-access-to-passwords-not-shared-to-anyone-for-a-user-who-left-the-company/2730/2 "2020-05-11T14:50:00Z")
Hello, 1. Not at the moment. 2. No. See. similar topics: > [@As an admin, retain an escrow copy of users' private keys](https://community.passbolt.com/t/as-an-admin-retain-an-escrow-copy-of-users-private-keys/655): > > Q1. What is the problem that you are trying to solve? In our experience with passbolt in a small company environment, the number one administrative pain point is when a user loses their private key. Typically this is because the machine where they generated it has crashed or needed reinstallation, and they didn’t keep a separate copy of the private key. We would like to help our users (and admins) by relieving them of the responsibility of keeping a secure copy of their private key. The way … > [@As a company owner, I can retrieve any secret stored in the company passbolt instance](https://community.passbolt.com/t/as-a-company-owner-i-can-retrieve-any-secret-stored-in-the-company-passbolt-instance/1712): > > Q1. What is the problem that you are trying to solve? If an employee leaves the company, and has stored company secrets in passbolt without sharing them, then currently those secrets are lost forever. Being able to retrieve those secrets may be critical for business continuity. A related common problem is when a user loses access to their own private key (e.g. reinstalls their PC without having taken a backup of the private key), and has unshared secrets in passbolt. There are other possible… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.passbolt.com/t/can-an-admin-get-access-to-passwords-not-shared-to-anyone-for-a-user-who-left-the-company/2730)._