Comment on Ubuntu Chromium Snap prevents encrypted storage of passwords by defaultComments−nh2OP4moUbuntu ships a Chromium browser that has its abilitiy to store passwords safely sandboxed/containerized away.I did not expect that, given that Ubuntu comes with a full GUI and thus safe password storage backend available in theory.Because this issue is open since 2022, I wrote a repro that proves its existence:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+...All credit goes to user "Erlenmayr" who reported this.−nh2OP4moTo see whether there are plain text passwords on your non-Snap chromium, change this line in the linked password dumper script: - db_path = os.path.expanduser("~/snap/chromium/common/chromium/Default/Login Data") + db_path = os.path.expanduser("~/.config/chromium/Default/Login Data")
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Ubuntu ships a Chromium browser that has its abilitiy to store passwords safely sandboxed/containerized away.
I did not expect that, given that Ubuntu comes with a full GUI and thus safe password storage backend available in theory.
Because this issue is open since 2022, I wrote a repro that proves its existence:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+...
All credit goes to user "Erlenmayr" who reported this.
To see whether there are plain text passwords on your non-Snap chromium, change this line in the linked password dumper script: