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I forgot one of my email passwords. And it's still saved in Thunderbird that ran on Kubuntu. But now my Kubuntu is broken, and I cannot open thunderbird's GUI. The only thing I know is username and password I used to open a new session on my broken Kubuntu installation. Anyway. So I tried hacking the file signons.sqlite containing my passwords, using this tutorial on stackexchange.

I could follow all the steps of the tutorial, except of the last one. And since it's not allowed on stackexchange to ask extra questions with low reputation, I am writing it here.

echo "select encryptedUsername, encryptedPassword from moz_logins;" | sqlite3 ~/.thunderbird/*.default/signons.sqlite

So where in the integer string can I find the encrypted Username and Password? And how to use Kubuntu's username+password to simply decrypt my email login credentials? I don't want to use Thunderbird Password Decryptor, because I distrust this hacking software.

gloschtla
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You might try using Thunderbird to open up another account. I believe the passwords for all your accounts will be available under the new account. Check the Privacy & Security section under the Settings option. There is a subsection called Passwords which contains the passwords of all your accounts, and you should find the one you need in the list. Normally the passwords are not available in the list, but there is an option to show them. Hope this will work for you.

Bob
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