When we prompt our browser to save credentials once we log into a web application, they store our corresponding username and password. I know to recover these things from my browser. But I want to know to which directory in Ubuntu these passwords are stored?
Ubuntu – the browser passwords stored
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Best Answer
Chromium and Chrome
Store passwords in three ways:
Chromium chooses which store to use automatically, based on your desktop environment.
Passwords stored in GNOME Keyring or KWallet are encrypted on disk, and access to them is controlled by dedicated daemon software. Passwords stored in plain text are not encrypted. Because of this, when either GNOME Keyring or KWallet is in use, any unencrypted passwords that have been stored previously are automatically moved into the encrypted store.
Source for Chromium.
The manual page for google chrome (
man google-chrome
) shows:Chrome uses the same method as Chromium. And you can use above setting to switch to plain text passwords (not recommended of course).
Chrome (older versions)
Passwords are stored in
~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Login\ Data
and that is a sqlite database file (that file is encrypyed).This login database file is in SQLite format which is lighter version of popular SQL database. In addition to login credentials it also stores other information such as auto complete entries, IE7 Logins, search keywords etc. The 'logins' table is where all the login or sign-on secrets are stored by Chrome. This table contains following interesting fields
Except the password field all other fields are entered in clear text. The password for all stored websites is encrypted using Triple DES algorithm seeded with logged on user's password. That means login secrets cannot be decrypted across the user or system boundaries unless under certain conditions.
Source for Microsoft Windows.
Firefox
See
~/.mozilla/firefox/<profilename>
Your passwords are stored in the key4.db and logins.json files.
Source.