Comment 7 for bug 2011281

On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 06:23:22AM -0000, Nathan Teodosio wrote:
> In bug description:

> 1> when I went to use my saved passwords in chromium today, I found that
> they were absent.

> In your last comment:

> 2> chromium continues to be able to *use* my saved passwords. But I
> don't know where they're actually saved

> Which one is correct/up to date?

The second. Somehow the initial problem corrected itself along the way. So
Chromium can *use* passwords and *save* passwords but it will not *display*
passwords.

> Likewise for

> 3> I found that there was a
> ~/snap/chromium/common/chromium/Default/Login Data.old containing all of
> my passwords, and a ~/snap/chromium/common/chromium/Default/Login Data
> containing a single password entry

> and

> 4> But I don't know where they're actually saved

> It looks impossible that Chromium is accessing passwords from 'Login
> Data.old'; there is no longer any reference to that, anywhere, so I
> think quote 3 might not be up to date.

It contained all passwords that had been saved in my browser prior to this
issue.

Currently, I have a ~/snap/chromium/common/chromium/Default/Login Data which
was last modified September 5. So perhaps passwords are still being written
here.

> Depending on the situation you could try --password-store=basic, but
> given the already buggy circumstances, better have those configuration
> files backed up.

> Without a reproducible case and access to those data files, which of
> course you must not share as it contains passwords, this is hard to debug.

So for you, chrome://settings/passwords shows your passwords under 'Saved
Passwords' without having to specify --password-store=basic?