Pidgin Password Recovery Bash Script

[kresh7]

ok while ago i was using Pidgin on Windows then while watching some files in the Application Data Folder i found out that Pidgin saves all your Accounts info in .XML as plain text without encrypting only some splitts were needed to make it look more nice so i tried it on linux to and i did a bash script which is not realy great done my first one :H but here is it also i did a recovery function in vb6

alias=$(whoami); 
TheInput=$(cat '/home/'$alias'/.purple/accounts.xml'); 
echo $TheInput | sed "s/ /\n/g"  | grep "protocol"; 
echo $TheInput | sed "s/ /\n/g" | grep  "<name>"; 
echo $TheInput | sed "s/ /\n/g" | grep  "<password>";  
echo $TheInput | sed "s/ /\n/g" | grep  "<alias>"

xD if anyone wants to improve it nth against it

[WingedPanther]

I've actually used that to recover passwords in the past.

[kresh7]

IMAO i wrote this 1 month ago didnt public it anywhere but who knows you may have wrote it your own

[Jordan]

Very disheartening that pidgin stores everything in plain text. I could easily steal someones passwords and log into their account knowing this information.

Good to know though.