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Where is my Skype password stored.
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writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [] [Usual thorough and lengthy VanguardLH answer snipped: good stuff, just not related to the OP's problem/question ...] [] 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. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900) |
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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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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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Where is my Skype password stored.
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