No, there's no way to retreive stored passwords in cleartext, not
through Mozilla anyway. Someone should write a little utility that
decrypts the stored password file - anyone interested in doing that?
-Mitch
Jeff wrote:
> I'd be grateful for any help you could offer...
>
> A couple of years ago I registered with seti@home through the ATT
> Worldnet ISP. Now of course I'm with a new provider, and I can't
> remember the password. Since my old email account is dead, I can't
> request the password from the seti@home website. It is, however,
> stored in Password Manager (though seti@home doesn't make use of that
> info). Is there any way to retrieve what the actual password is? The
> encryption option is off for all the passwords, would a search for
> relevant text strings in the Netscape folders (Seti, berkeley, for
> exmpl) using START|FIND turn up anything?
>
> Not a major life crisis, I know, but I do have over a year of CPU time
> credited to the account, and I'd hate to start all over again unless I
> really needed to.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jeff
