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Retrieve Passwords

#1 Post by nplanek » 2011-10-05 19:47

Is there anyway to retrieve the login and password information for all my firezilla logins. We are using much more now and I didn't keep track, now I need to.

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Re: Retrieve Passwords

#2 Post by boco » 2011-10-05 20:27

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Using the client or the server?

Client: Simply export (File menu) the sites into an XML file.
Server: All account information is stored in the FileZilla Server.xml file, except the passwords. The server never stores passwords, only their MD5 hashes.
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Re: Retrieve Passwords

#3 Post by nplanek » 2011-10-05 20:49

It would be the server, and I guess I'm out of luck since there's no way to retrieve the password.

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Re: Retrieve Passwords

#4 Post by botg » 2011-10-05 21:17

Please contact your server administrator to recover from lost login credentials.

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Re: Retrieve Passwords

#5 Post by boco » 2011-10-05 22:19

@botg: From her first post, she is using FileZilla Server and the server admin.

Yes, FileZilla Server doesn't save any passwords, only the MD5 hash (that's all it needs). By the way, this is the reason for all passwords getting equal length after having been entered. Since hashing is a one-way lossy operation, there would be only one way to determine potential password candidates - searching for so called collisions (source strings producing exact that hash) via brute force methods. MD5 is not collision resistant, so there may be more than one password working for a FileZilla Server account. However, actually finding the original password or one of the alternate strings has a very low chance and is very time consuming. In other words: Not worth the hassle. So I fear the best way would be to issue new ones.

@botg: Would change the hash to SHA512 be overkill? Plain MD5 is a bit weak, would need at least some salting...
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#6 Post by botg » 2011-10-06 06:23

@boco: Not when I originally started my previous reply, the other replies were not yet there. Regarding SHA512, I think it would be overkill. After all, nobody should have access to the settings file in the first place.

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Re: Retrieve Passwords

#7 Post by Hugh_K » 2014-07-16 15:11

boco wrote:Client: Simply export (File menu) the sites into an XML file.
This was exactly what I needed for one of our newer websites. Thank you!
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