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NSS-PASSWORDS(1) General Commands Manual NSS-PASSWORDS(1)

NAME

nss-passwords - read passwords from Mozilla keyrings from command line

SYNOPSIS

nss-passwords [options] query

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the nss-passwords command.

nss-passwords is a program that reads passwords from keyrings used by Mozilla products, like Firefox and Thunderbird. It can run entirely in text mode. query is a string that will be looked for in the hostname entries of the keyring.

OPTIONS

-d dir
Profile directory. By default, Firefox default profile is guessed.
-p prog
Program used to ask for a password. By default, pinentry(1) is used.
-help, --help
Show summary of options.

SEE ALSO

pinentry(1).

AUTHOR

nss-passwords was written by Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net>.
April 2011