Recovering saved password in Filezilla [closed]

Question

Unfortunately I can not remember the password of FTP server, but it is saved in FileZilla Site Manager (Ubuntu).

How can I view the saved password?

Mordecai

very offtopic. --> superuser.com – Barbuto

find . -iname "filezilla" gives /home/[username]/.config/filezilla in my case. Then take the sitemanager.xml and look for the Pass element. It might be base64 encoded; base64 decoders are available en masse. – Highclass

all incorrect answers; if you use master pass all that steps not work. – Georgiannageorgianne

Answer 1

Export your Site Manager information and you'll find them in plain text:

File > Export > Export Site Manager entries

It exports everything in XML like this:

<Server>
 <Host>ftp.example.com</Host>
 <Port>21</Port>
 <Protocol>0</Protocol>
 <Type>0</Type>
 <User>root</User>
 <Pass>mypass</Pass>
 [etc]
</Server>

Paule

This file had no entries for me, but werner's answer below worked. – Whiff

But in my case password is saved under base64 encoding. Respective "pass" entry is as like as below :- <Pass encoding="base64">some text</Pass> What should I do now ? – Mas

You can decode it using a tool like this: ostermiller.org/calc/encode.html but be aware that it's safer to write your own script for knowing 100% that nobody stores the decoded result. – Paule

Answer 2

All passwords are stored in plain text in this file:

/home/username/.filezilla/recentservers.xml

And for newer versions of filezilla and ubuntu, /home/username/.config/filezilla/recentservers.xml If the passwords are base64 encoded, https://www.base64decode.org/ can be used to get the original password.

Swing

Answer 3

Ubuntu Linux FileZilla SiteManager file:

/home/username/.filezilla/sitemanager.xml

Areopagite

Ubuntu Linux FileZilla SiteManager file: /home/username/.filezilla/sitemanager.xml – Cassation

Answer 4

If you didn't store your passwords in the Site Manager, but only used 'Quick connect', you can still retrieve them from the history: they are stored in filezilla.xml in the following directory :

Windows XP/2K: “C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\FileZilla”

Windows Vista: “C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\FileZilla\”

Linux: “/home/username/.filezilla/”

Laveen