Am 03.04.2018 um 10:03 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> Michael Schwartzkopff - 03.04.18, 07:19:
>> Am 02.04.2018 um 10:11 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> […]
>>> Michael Schwartzkopff - 02.04.18, 07:44:
>>>> I did an upgrade of ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 and now my kwallet is empty.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The version of kwalletmanager on the old system was 4:4.13.2.
>>>>
>>>> The version on the new system is 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The new kwalletmanager just says: "Error -9".
>>>>
>>>> Now I installed an other machine with the old ubuntu 14.04 to open the
>>>> kwallet there and export it to XML. But opening the kdewallet.kwl there
>>>> also fails with "Error 42".
>>> This should work.
>>>
>>> Which one did you use? You need to use the old one in ~/.kde/share/apps/
>>> kwalletd, not the new one in ~/.config/kwalletd.
>>>
>>>> Any idea how I can retrieve my passwords? It really would be urgent.
>>> You can retry the migration:
>>>
>>> Set alreadyMigrated to false again:
>>>
>>> %> cat .config/kwalletrc
>>> [Migration]
>>> alreadyMigrated=true
>>>
>>> Restart kwalletd. One way is to log out and log in. There is another way
>>> which works during a session, but I am not sure how it worked. Maybe you
>>> can just quit kwalletd5 process and start it again.
>>>
>>> Also see:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/
>>> Troubleshooting#Recover_KWallet_passwords_after_failed_migration
> […]
>> thanks for your hint. But setting Migration flag to false did not help.
>> Since I did set up an old ubuntu version already I have little hope that
>> an old gentoo would help.
>>
>>
>> But it seems a last hope if nothing elase works.
> No, I was not suggesting you setup a Gentoo. I don´t think it matters whether
> its kwallet(d|manager) 4 from Ubuntu or Gentoo.
>
>> Any other ideas to recover my passwords? Since I know my master password
>> and I have the salt and the kwl files, is there a cli tool just to
>> decrypt the contents and dump it? Or is there a description of the data
>> format of the kwl file, so I could write it myself?
> There was a tool. Oh and it appears there still is: At least Debian still has
> the package kwalletcli. It depends on KF5 stuff already, so I am not sure
> whether it would be able to read old files. But AFAIR there has been a KDE SC
> 4 version as well. Unfortunately it can only access specified entries and not
> dump the whole contents of it. But well, you may ask its author Thorsten
> Glaser for help to recover your kwallet, as I think he may know quite a bit
> more about it than me. You can find mail address with apt-cache show
> kwalletcli. There are also language bindings¹ including a Python example, so
> maybe something is scriptable. kwalletcli itself can only read the standard
> wallet.
>
> [1] https://www.mirbsd.org/kwalletcli.htm
>
> In addition to that there is also a kwallet-query tool². It can also list
> entries. And you give it the name of the wallet to use. It is from one of the
> maintainers of it Valentin Rusu. And its part of kwallet distribution since
> some time. Listing my standard wallet works like this:
>
> kwallet-query -l kdewallet
>
> But just gives a list of entries, without passwords. You then need a script
> which reads password of every item.
>
> [2] (was not able to access it, timeout, but maybe you can, or archive.org
> can
> help) https://barlog.rusu.info/valentin/blog/?p=386
>
> Well as I bet you can speak German you can also skim through my article from
> 2011 about password managers³. Maybe some of them or one of their successors
> (latest keepass(2|x) for example) can *import* kwallet files. Hmmm, does not
> seem like keepass2 can directly import them[4].
>
> [3] http://www.linux-community.de/Internal/Artikel/Print-Artikel/LinuxUser/
> 2011/01/Passwortmanager-im-Vergleich
>
> [4] https://keepass.info/help/base/importexport.html
>
> Also in case you still have that old Ubuntu: At least with Debian for some
> release there have been kwalletd4 and kwalletd from KF5 running in parallel,
> but only one kwalletmanager, the one of KF5. So in case you can get any KDE
> SC
> 4 based CLI tool or kwalletmanager from KDE SC 4 for work, you should be able
> to access your old wallet, but well, haven´t you already been able to access
> the old contents as XML or so?
>
>> Now I installed an other machine with the old ubuntu 14.04 to
