{"id":8564,"date":"2017-04-27T08:21:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T08:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saeler.com\/?p=8564"},"modified":"2022-10-17T21:24:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T21:24:46","slug":"recover-password-filezilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/development\/file-management\/recover-password-filezilla\/","title":{"rendered":"How to recover hidden passwords from FileZilla"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From time to time, I discover that for whatever reason I don&#8217;t have a client&#8217;s cPanel login credentials on file&nbsp;but I can still log in via FTP with FileZilla. Getting the username is easy. The password, on the other hand, seems to be a different story because it&#8217;s masked behind asterisks.&nbsp;Fortunately, it&#8217;s not too difficult to retrieve the password in a few simple steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FileZilla Password Recovery Step 1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Open FileZilla and go to Export from the file menu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1001\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-1-1001x1024.jpg\" alt=\"FileZilla Password Recovery Step 1 Screen Capture\" class=\"wp-image-10757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-1-1001x1024.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-1-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-1-768x786.jpg 768w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-1.jpg 1007w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FileZilla&nbsp;Password Recovery Step 2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Export&nbsp;options window pops up, select &#8220;Site Manager Entries&#8221; and click OK. Then save the XML file&nbsp;in a location you can easily find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1005\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-2-1005x1024.jpg\" alt=\"FileZilla Password Recovery Step 2 Screen Capture\" class=\"wp-image-10758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-2-1005x1024.jpg 1005w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-2-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-2-768x782.jpg 768w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-2.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1005px) 100vw, 1005px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FileZilla&nbsp;Password Recovery Step 3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Open the XML file in a text editor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Windows<\/strong> &#8211; Right Click on the file and choose open with, then locate a text editor such as Notepad, MS Word or TextPad<\/li><li><strong>Mac<\/strong> &#8211; To <b>open a file<\/b> on your <b>Mac<\/b> using a <b>different program<\/b>, navigate to the <b>file<\/b> you wish to&nbsp;<b>open<\/b> and right-click (control or command key &#8211; if you don&#8217;t have a two-button mouse) on it to see the <b>file<\/b> menu. When the <b>file<\/b> menu opens, click on the <b>Open<\/b> With option as shown in the image above. This will <b>open&nbsp;<\/b>the <b>Open<\/b> With submenu.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">* Example below is windows<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"621\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-3.jpg\" alt=\"FileZilla Password Recovery Step 3 Screen Capture\" class=\"wp-image-10759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-3.jpg 621w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-3-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FileZilla&nbsp;Password Recovery Step 4<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Locate the account you want to access and copy the encrypted password<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"603\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-4.jpg\" alt=\"FileZilla Password Recovery Step 4 Screen Capture\" class=\"wp-image-10760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-4.jpg 603w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-4-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-4-600x262.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FileZilla&nbsp;Password Recovery Step 5<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the password is base 64 encoded you will need to decode it. You can either Google &#8220;Decrypt Base64&#8221; or &#8220;Decode Base64&#8221; to find a site to convert the password to a usable format. I used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.base64decode.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.base64decode.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1014\" height=\"940\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-5.jpg\" alt=\"FileZilla Password Recovery Step 5 Screen Capture\" class=\"wp-image-10761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-5.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-5-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-5-768x712.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FileZilla&nbsp;Password Recovery Step 6<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Paste the encrypted password from the FileZilla XML file into the first text field.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Click Decode<\/li><li>Copy your recovered password from the second text field<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s It &#8211; Password Recovered! Don&#8217;t forget to store it in a safe place!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1014\" height=\"940\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-6.jpg\" alt=\"FileZilla Password Recovery Step 6 Screen Capture\" class=\"wp-image-10762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-6.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-6-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/filezilla-password-recover-6-768x712.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, I discover that for whatever reason I don&#8217;t have a client&#8217;s cPanel login credentials on file&nbsp;but I can still log in via FTP with FileZilla. Getting the username is easy. The password, on the other hand, seems to be a different story because it&#8217;s masked behind asterisks.&nbsp;Fortunately, it&#8217;s not too difficult\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/development\/file-management\/recover-password-filezilla\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":30,"wds_primary_category":111,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[122,153,184],"class_list":{"0":"post-8564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-file-management","8":"tag-filezilla","9":"tag-ftp","10":"tag-password-recovery","11":"entry"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/filezilla_program_screen_capture-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/filezilla_program_screen_capture-600x473.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Jack Alltrade","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/author\/jacka11trade\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10763,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions\/10763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}