Hi,

I have the following problem. I have a skype account for which I don't remember the password. I didn't specify any email address when registering, or I've forgotten what I've specified, so the password recovery feature on skype.com can't be used to get a new one. Also, my browser hasn't stored the password for this account in its password list neither.

However, Skype on my computer has remembered it, and it can log in automatically.

The question is, do I have a way to get the password out of the Skype software's database? Or, alternatively, is there a way to get or change the password from whithin Skype once I'm logged in and connected, whithout having to actually know it in advance? (The "Change password" feature asks for the old one first.)

thanxx

I forgot my username / e-mail address / password:

5) When all this isn’t of any help, there is a final solution: if you have a paid service with
Skype, Skype Staff can retrieve your user name / e-mail address but needs billing details
like part of your Credit card number, PayPal account info you need to send a support request from here http://support.skype.com/?_a=tickets&_m=submit

No paid subscription either. I've done my homework before posting, and I've found that "final" point - I just forgot to mention it in my former post.

[quote]Or, alternatively, is there a way to get or change the password from whithin Skype once I'm logged in and connected, whithout having to actually know it in advance? [/quote]

Sorry no there is not, as you do not have a paid account there is nothing you can do except hope you dont forget you password or stop the logon automaticaly for Skype.

Hello mortee00.
To find whether or not you registered with an email address enter the following (assuming mortee00 is Skype username) in browser or Windows Explorer address bar.

%appdata%skypemortee00

Open profile dbb file with notepad

Yes, I know about that file. I've changed the email addres associated with the account subsequently, and that can be seen there. But unfortunately skype.com doesn't accept it in the password recovery feature (I guess because it only accepts an email address specified upon registration, not one specified subsequently).

But for god's sake, the Skype software knows that password, so there must be a way for me to extract it too. How and where does it get stored?

Mortee,

Your password to log on to Skype and your account at www.skype.com, is stored in www.skype.com's database and not in the software on your computer. This is for security reasons. And this is why you can't log on to your Skype client when you have forgotten your password.

Ike

Just to add a small point to Ike's comment. Quite often the password information is stored on databases using one-way encryption. This means it is not possible to recover the actual password, whilst you can check wheter a supplied password matches the originally encrypted password.

This technique is used to protect passwords from disclosure if someone has unauthorised access to the database.

Hello,

Usually the passwords for programs, that use automactic login are stored in Windows registry. You can search entire registry (but the password can be encrypted) or just download one of program, which show You the password :lol: Hope, that will be helpfull.

For example:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4287.html

Your password is stored in the profile dbb but you will not ba able to view it as it is encrypted unless you ahve an encryption program.

Hi @ all,

I have the same situation than mortee00

can you give us an encryption program name?

Thank you

[quote=ninchua]Hi @ all,

I have the same situation than mortee00

can you give us an encryption program name?

Thank you[/quote]

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4287.html

[quote=rocketman][quote=ninchua]Hi @ all,

I have the same situation than mortee00

can you give us an encryption program name?

Thank you[/quote]
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4287.html[/quote]

Sorry man, I've already tried with that
but if I apply it on the encrypted part of the profile txt file, it still does not work.

Do you think that I can try in any other places?

Sorry don't realy know, you could try it on the whole file.

any other suggestions?

Do a Google for an encryption program.

from my knowledge, no one has ever recovered a password, by any third party program.
and also my understanding your password is stored (encrypted) on your PC.

I have an old version not upgraded yet,
there's a way to hack it with a bug-exploit or something else?

It's a nonsense to change account just because I forgot to add an email
during the registration process...

[quote=ninchua]
I have an old version not upgraded yet,
there's a way to hack it with a bug-exploit or something else?

It's a nonsense to change account just because I forgot to add an email
during the registration process...[/quote]

As i say, its impossible in my knowledge to break the SKYPE password. The only way to retrieve is if you had paid services at some time.

Adam

I'm in the same situation. I'm kinda attached to my login and to change it would be a pain. The thing is since I logged in on another PC useing a different login but with the same password skype shut down on this PC then wouldn't restart on a reboot. So I reinstalled and now when it asks me for my password it tells me that it is wrong. Now I'm only human and bound to make misstakes BUT I'm as sure as I can be that I set these two logins up with the same password and now one wont login.


[quote]its impossible in my knowledge to break the SKYPE password[/quote]

With respect in my knowledge nothing is impossible. If Skype don't provide a password recovery tool some one will. There are plenty of password decryptors for ICQ AIM MSN etc. If any one finds one please let me know as well.

Now if I do find out that the pass word is what I think it is surposed to be and that the issuse is at the Skype Data Base side.. What on earth are we to do then?? Oh well I guess.... that bridge...

[quote=Pool]I'm in the same situation. I'm kinda attached to my login and to change it would be a pain. The thing is since I logged in on another PC useing a different login but with the same password skype shut down on this PC then wouldn't restart on a reboot. So I reinstalled and now when it asks me for my password it tells me that it is wrong. Now I'm only human and bound to make misstakes BUT I'm as sure as I can be that I set these two logins up with the same password and now one wont login.


[quote]its impossible in my knowledge to break the SKYPE password[/quote]

With respect in my knowledge nothing is impossible. If Skype don't provide a password recovery tool some one will. There are plenty of password decryptors for ICQ AIM MSN etc. If any one finds one please let me know as well.

Now if I do find out that the pass word is what I think it is surposed to be and that the issuse is at the Skype Data Base side.. What on earth are we to do then?? Oh well I guess.... that bridge...[/quote]

Of course nothing is impossible, but as I say in my knowledge/experience "no one has yet broken" SKYPE encryption. Of course you are welcome to try.

SKYPE does have a password recovery, its basen on your valid E mail address or paid services. Without either of those how can they recover some ones password and guarantee the person requesting it is valid user??

I have the same situation, i forgot my password, but I have in my profile a mistaken address of e-mail .
what can i do?

[quote="GLADIATOR"]
Without either of those how can they recover some ones password and guarantee the person requesting it is valid user??[/quote]

that's right, but I can cancel a profile in order not to make to use it from others

[quote=romola][quote=GLADIATOR]
Without either of those how can they recover some ones password and guarantee the person requesting it is valid user??[/quote]

that's right, but I can cancel a profile in order not to make to use it from others[/quote]

Sorry, I do not understand, but it matters not. Without a valid e mail address or paid services, there is NO way to retrieve a password.

End.

[quote]Without a valid e mail address or paid services, there is NO way to retrieve a password. [/quote]

Honestly Gladiator that line is getting a bit repetitive as we have established that there is a way to recover your password from your own PC by decrypting it from you profile.dbb file. It is just how or maybe if to do that is the question.

I can understand that this is obviously not something that skype would like to encourage as any one that gained remote access to someones PC could then execute an app that mined thier password. Which would be a rather fairly big reduction in Skypes perception of security. Esp with all the flackey Windows boxes out there.

Skype dose however need to do something to help the many people that get caught out when reinstalling skype and have a hard to remember (secure) password. Other wise there will be enough energy out there for some clever cloggs to get pissed off enough to crack the password encryption in the profile.dbb file and make it freely available to the rest of the disgruntled world.

So looking for a clever and secure solution to this issues. Is there a way that one could request a lapse of a user name and so then reissue it, is there some other way of Iding a user of an account eg with intmate knowledge of recent traffic? There must be some way for those that are in this situation to get their accounts back. To keep repeting that the only way is to have a valid email or a pay account is just way too transperent. There are many many people that dont want to give out thier email for very good reason. We do not need to feel guilty about this at all. The net is allready far to well monitered for comercial gain. Same goes for skype out. This could also be, in a way, a little test of skypes quality. How far will they go to help out those that don't give them any money. Will they use this as an oportunity to help out or as a PR exersize to spin the skype out/ valid email bottle.

[quote]Without either of those how can they recover some ones password and guarantee the person requesting it is valid user??[/quote]

This is a very good question and there needs to be obvious energy from skype going into finding a clever solution to this. I think that is what every one is saying here.

Pool wrote[quote]Skype dose however need to do something to help the many people that get caught out when reinstalling skype and have a hard to remember (secure) password. [/quote] Skype do this already provided you supplied a valid email address in the first place and kept Skype informed if this addressed changed do to change of service providor etc.

Skype cannot be held responsible for people who DO NOT want to provide legit email addresses or inform them of changed email addresses.

The user needs to take some responsibality for the recovery of his/her lost forgoten details.

Oh dear rocketman I think you may have driven so fast you missed the corner to the point.

[quote] Skype do this already provided you supplied a valid email address in the first place and kept Skype informed if this addressed changed do to change of service providor etc. [/quote]

Every one reading this allready knows this but no one here is talking about it. There are few things in life as annoying as a great big should have.

I personally am not trying to hold skype responsible for any thing.

I am here writing in the skype support forum asking for exactly that support for those that don't have a valid email listed or skype out. I am interested to see how far skype will go to help us out. Both now and for the future.

As i said before I think skype needs to show a bit of their quality and really try to help out those that are in the shut out of their accounts situation. Not because they should but because thats what a good friendly company would do.

At the very least it needs to make sure that you don't need to re-enter your password every time you upgrade. At best get invloved with this conversation and togeather we might be able to come up with a secure way for folks to get their accounts back.

That will of course need a bit of creativity and postive intentions. I don't think any one reading this want's to hear another it can't be done rant. I certainly don't.

What do you think skype how about some seriously creative input here.

Hi, can you please clarify if I have to do it on the computer where I installed that Skype account which I am trying to figure out the email address to? Is this file stored on the computer where the account was setup first or on any computer where I logged in?
Thanks

Guys. It's impossible. See the blog post on this:
Skype Password Recovery

Hello,

I have same problem. I forgot pasword...
Now I have working skype with my account on one Workstation but I can't transfer it to another Workstation and can't to change password.

So, how I can restore my skype password? Also, during registration I had made mistake in e-mail. I filled @uke.net, but valid one is @ukr.net.

May be there is another way to restore password by swithing to my old password?

I also wrote to support but after 48 hours I didn't get response.

Thanks,
Yuriy

Thanks,

Issues closed. I have got e-mail from support.

I have had this same problem for weeks: forgot my password b/c the system goes up automatically, did not register email originally b/c Skype never asked for it. Skype support did not help at all. I found a software recovery program for 29USD at lastbit.com/skype/default.asp (the free demo will work only for passwords up to 3 characters). It takes a few hours to search for up to 11 characters lower case letters only, no numbers symbols etc. If it does not find the password with this system the program then switches to searching all cases, letters or digits numbers etc. -- except that this more complex search takes forever. The good news was (for me) that when the program switched to search of letters and numbers I then knew for sure that my forgotten password included both letters and numbers, and I started to try all the possible letters/numbers combinations I would normally use...and it worked, I remmebered. So the program did not recover the password but helped me remember and could do the same for you. Or it may end up recovering passwords for you but it will take time depending on how long/complex your password is. Hope this helps.

If skype login automaticaly in yours pc, to retrieve pasword you can try Lastbit skype pasword it cost 29$ I tried and it helped