On 02/14/2015 07:45 PM, jd1008 wrote: > On 02/14/2015 05:39 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I was rather surprised to find that I could read the passwords >> stored by Mozilla/Firefox (Preferences=>Security). >> I always assumed they were encrypted in some way. >> Pure ignorance, I guess. >> > You actually trusted FF to secure your online web account passwords???
LOL. this is true. Timothy, on a serious side, moz does put out a decent try by storing passwords in file "signons.sqlite". which is not an encrypted file. what file are you seeing your passwords in? see this link; http://kb.mozillazine.org/Password_Manager the diff of oos and linux versions is that access to the password manager is; Edit > Preferences > Security > [Saved Passwords...] to open window Saved Passwords where you can edit password file. to aide editing, i use; https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saved-password-editor/ and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saved-passwords-button/ to export passwords, i use; https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/password-exporter/ do you have above exporter and are seeing file it exports? -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
