Recover Password out of FileZillla Site Manager

Open up FileZilla, for to the Site Manager, right click on the entry you want, and export it. This will export all the settings for the site(s).

Once exported, open the XML file. Look for the Pass encoding field. Copy the base64 encoded password. Its the text highlighted in yellow. Yours should be longer.

FileZilla Base64 Encoded Password

Decode base64 encoded password. We can do this using the built in linux base64 utility. You can use also use python.

echo -n dWJudA== | base64 -d && echo ""

Result returns the password which is “ubnt”