Saved KiTTY Password Extraction
Recently I needed to scp to a linux box that I had long ago lost the password to, but luckily I had that password saved in KiTTY. This awesome Intertip allowed me to recover that lost password in just 8 simple steps:
- Load the session with the stored password into KiTTY
- Go to the Session -> Logging
- Enable logging for SSH packets and raw data
- Uncheck the Omit known passwords fields box
- Start the session, wait until it logs you in
- Close the KiTTY window
- Go to your KiTTY folder and open the log file
- Find the "Send automatic password" block to get your plain-text password.
(from: https://serverfault.com/questions/516942/saved-kitty-password-extraction/716152)
Once recovered, I saved the user/pass as part of the session save so that I don't have to go through this every week. :-)