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  #16  
Old March 12th 13, 07:56 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default Where is my Skype password stored.

In message , VanguardLH
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

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[Usual thorough and lengthy VanguardLH answer snipped: good stuff, just
not related to the OP's problem/question ...]

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Hmm, now who was it the made that statement? I addressed your second
statement in the misbelief that a NAT router is going to hide you or
that a device behind it cannot be uniquely identified. You really
thought all you would get is a "Not difficult at all" response?


Not from you I suppose! You and I are a bit alike in that respect.

OK, they can and it's easy for them to do so. The first part of my
question still stands: does Skype log individual computers? If so, does
it force a user setting up a new computer on an existing account to
create a new password if they've upped the requirement since the account
was opened, but still allow existing computers to use grandfathered
passwords? Seems a bit inconsistent if so. I still think it thought a
new account was being created.


Since the multiple hosts are connecting to the same account, it should
be the same login credentials used on each host. Different login
credentials from different devices (hosts) connecting to the same
account would cause undue hardship and confusion to the users. They
won't remember a whole bunch of different logins to the same account.


That's what I thought.

*IF* it is indeed the true scenario of the actual owner logging into
that one account, it should be the same login credentials at each host.
So something else is happening that we're not being told about here.

The OP claims he is logging into the SAME account and we are inferring
that it his account. Not many client hide the username field for the
login credentials, so the OP can easy obtain what is his correct
username for logging in (name, e-mail address, or whatever). He wants
our help on bypassing login requirements on his new host. If he knew
what was his old password, and since that old password still works on
his professed prior host, then it's the same password now for his new
laptop.


Agreed.
[rest snipped.]
I assumed that he had somehow ticked (or not ticked) the wrong box in
setting up Skype on his new machine, such that it thought he was setting
up a new account instead; if I understand you correctly, you think he is
asking for our help in hacking into somebody else's account. Since we've
scared him off with our (good-natured I hope) bickering, or at least
he's wandered off in disinterest, we'll not know which is the case.
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Old March 16th 13, 11:19 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
micky[_2_]
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Default Where is my Skype password stored.



Posted and emailed to everyone (both of you) who posted in the t
hread with a seemingly valid address. I don't want this false
story going any farther than it has.

On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:21:01 -0500, micky
wrote:

I have Skype on my home computer, and just got a laptop I want to
install Skype there too but when I went to use my current email
address and password, it didn't like the password.


I can be so stupid. It's not the password it didn't like. It was
the Skype name. I used the email address I used for Skype instead.

Skype doesn't make you log in after the first time for a given
computer, so I'd forgotten what went into those fields. The second
was marked password, and I don't even recall what the first one is
called.

Doing favors for friends can certainly help oneself. I was setting up
Skype on a friend's laptop, and I didn't know his birthday etc. but I
wanted to test Skype, the microphone, the speakers. It finally
occurred to me to use my login. And this time, I just automatically
used my Skype name, not my email address, and everything worked. So
I tried that on my laptop and it worked there too.

It must be true that new accounts have stricter standards for
passwords, but they havent' outlawed my password, which violates two
of their current rules.


I never did find out where it was stored. I was planning on copying my
friend's registry just before and just after I first entered his
password and comparinig them with FC. But I really don't have time
for things like this right now.

I hope you'll forget about this stupid episode before I ask my next
question.

Thanks again

P.S. FWIW I still have four posts in this thread to read.



It said it didn't have a number in it and was too easy to guess.

OTOH, the same password still works fine on my desktop.

I know it and I remember it and I want to conintue using the current
password. Plus this sort of thing has come up before, so I want to
find where it is stored on the computer, and inert the passwordt in
that place on the new laptop**

So where is it stored?

One my desktop computer, I Searched the files for any file or folder
with "Skype" in it, and looked in every file within those folders.

I looked in the Registry and found several references to Skype, but
very little data.

In both cases, I couldnt' find my Skype password.


I think I could register for a second skype account then compare the
old r egistry with the new one to find what has been added, but I
don't know how to compare the two r egistries without my going line by
line.

Thanks.


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Old March 17th 13, 04:06 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul
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Default Where is my Skype password stored.

micky wrote:

Posted and emailed to everyone (both of you) who posted in the t
hread with a seemingly valid address. I don't want this false
story going any farther than it has.

On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:21:01 -0500, micky
wrote:

I have Skype on my home computer, and just got a laptop I want to
install Skype there too but when I went to use my current email
address and password, it didn't like the password.


I can be so stupid. It's not the password it didn't like. It was
the Skype name. I used the email address I used for Skype instead.

Skype doesn't make you log in after the first time for a given
computer, so I'd forgotten what went into those fields. The second
was marked password, and I don't even recall what the first one is
called.

Doing favors for friends can certainly help oneself. I was setting up
Skype on a friend's laptop, and I didn't know his birthday etc. but I
wanted to test Skype, the microphone, the speakers. It finally
occurred to me to use my login. And this time, I just automatically
used my Skype name, not my email address, and everything worked. So
I tried that on my laptop and it worked there too.

It must be true that new accounts have stricter standards for
passwords, but they havent' outlawed my password, which violates two
of their current rules.


I never did find out where it was stored. I was planning on copying my
friend's registry just before and just after I first entered his
password and comparinig them with FC. But I really don't have time
for things like this right now.

I hope you'll forget about this stupid episode before I ask my next
question.

Thanks again

P.S. FWIW I still have four posts in this thread to read.



It said it didn't have a number in it and was too easy to guess.

OTOH, the same password still works fine on my desktop.

I know it and I remember it and I want to conintue using the current
password. Plus this sort of thing has come up before, so I want to
find where it is stored on the computer, and inert the passwordt in
that place on the new laptop**

So where is it stored?

One my desktop computer, I Searched the files for any file or folder
with "Skype" in it, and looked in every file within those folders.

I looked in the Registry and found several references to Skype, but
very little data.

In both cases, I couldnt' find my Skype password.


I think I could register for a second skype account then compare the
old r egistry with the new one to find what has been added, but I
don't know how to compare the two r egistries without my going line by
line.

Thanks.



Just for the record, the Skype designers are wizards at security.
You can be assured your password is not stored in plaintext.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security

Skype has been a major challenge, for the academics who have
studied it from the outside. Skype can punch through filters
that IP departments set up (it can use things like port 80,
to get through corporate walls). Skype uses public key encryption
for stuff. There are some papers on the topic, here.

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~salman/skype/

Paul
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Old July 10th 20, 09:53 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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