Howto convert or export galeon site passwords for use with epiphany

[Paul Jakma]

Hi all,

After using galeon for many many years, it seems the time has come to
move to epiphany, as it seems to be future and more actively
maintained as GNOME's official browser.

I have one problem though: A long list of site passwords for which
there doesn't seem any obvious way to import into epiphany (galeon
uses mozilla's password storage method it seems, epiphany uses solme
GNOME method it seems).

Galeon's password file, signons2.txt seems to contain two encodings.
Long-standing passwords are base64 encoded, then prepended with ~.
Newer passwords however seem to use some other encoding.

Any clues on how to get that into epiphany?

Thanks in advance.

NB: If possible, please honour the Reply-To if replying.

regards,
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[Paul Jakma]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Paul Jakma wrote:

> I have one problem though: A long list of site passwords for which
> there doesn't seem any obvious way to import into epiphany (galeon
> uses mozilla's password storage method it seems, epiphany uses
> solme GNOME method it seems).
>
> Galeon's password file, signons2.txt seems to contain two
> encodings. Long-standing passwords are base64 encoded, then
> prepended with ~. Newer passwords however seem to use some other
> encoding.
>
> Any clues on how to get that into epiphany?

Ever noticed that posting a question to a mailing list is a
prerequisite for finding the answer yourself? The answer is:

Epiphany uses the exact same password site mechanism as Galeon (at
least for versions 2.20 and 2.0.3 respectively), i.e. a
<prefix>/mozilla/<browser name>/signons2.txt file. This is, it seems,
the same mechanism as Firefox, except that neither galeon nor
epiphany make use of the master-key feature (which would be kept in
key3.db in the same directory). So to migrate:

    cp ~/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/signons2.txt \
       ~/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/

If you already have passwords stored in epiphany, which are not in
galeon, you can merge the files manually quite easily. The file
format is fairly obvious:

#2d
<list of 'dont remember password sites'>
.
<lists of 'details for a site' blocks>
.

I'd still be curious to know what the new encoding is though
(epiphany has an option to display the decoded passwords, but if
someone could save me from wading through the sources of epiphany
and/or mozilla.. ;) ).

regards,
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