Re: recovering passwords from backup



Thanks again, you do an awesome work.

Cheers,

Roberto

2014-09-08 2:32 GMT-05:00 Stef Walter <stefw gnome org>:
On 07.09.2014 07:41, Roberto Velasco Segura wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm recovering my passwords (stored in seahorse) from a backup of a
> system that is no longer bootable, I'm using the tool described here
>
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/seahorse-list/2012-March/msg00002.html
>
> no problems, everything is decrypted succesfully, but I have two questions:
>
> I have some login.keyring-temp-NNNNNN and default.keyring-temp-NNNNNN
> files, that can be decrypted, is it possible that they contain a
> password not present in the login.keyring or the default.keyring files?
> should I check all the temp files to recover all my passwords.

You could try, but no guarantees they would contain anything interesting.

> And second, should I care about the contents of user.keystore and
> user.keystore.NNNNN files?

No, these don't contain passwords.

Cheers,

Stef




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