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Ubuntu Chromium Snap prevents encrypted storage of passwords by default

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1996267

3•nh2•1h ago

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nh2•1h ago

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.

nh2•1h ago

To 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")