Nonetheless, this does allow a user to reveal stored passwords for that same users account, so be aware of the potential privacy and security implications. On the other hand, there is legitimate value here for forensic purposes and for some unique system administration cases, and it’s also just infinitely helpful to those of us who forget a password and don’t want to go through the entire reset process through a particular web service. Important security note: There is some minor potential for security breaches with this trick, but as long as you don’t let random people log into your user account that should not be an issue – that’s what guest login is for anyway. This is a great alternative to using the “password reset” or forgotten password features that are multi-step processes on many web sites and services since it doesn’t require any internet connectivity. This will work for all websites that have stored information through Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and it should work for any other browser as well.
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The good news is that if you use the Mac OS X Keychain feature to keep track of login information for websites through your browser (you know when the browser asks to save/store your login information?), you don’t need to worry, all you need is the websites URL and you’ll be able to retrieve a forgotten password as long as you’re logged into the same user account that you originally saved it with.
How many times have you forgotten the password to a website? Don’t feel bad because it happens to the best of us. This is a handy feature that gives you access to the Keychain via Terminal.
You can retrieve forgotten website and browser passwords by using a command line tool in Mac OS X.
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