Not-hiding passwords in sitemanager

[sthingp]

I would like to have an option to NOT hide the passwords in
sitemanager. I know this is a security risk and of course the default
should be hidden, but in my case my accounts are not that super
classified. By showing passwords in the sitemanager I will have a
"personal database" (or address book if you like) of my ftp-
accounts, and if I need to use another program or in any other way use
an account outside of FileZilla, I can always look to FileZilla for
the correct account-information. Otherwise I would have to look for
the account-information in mails, hardcopies from ISPs, ICQ
messages - u name it.

[hudu90]

Would it be good to have a "note" field for each site in the
SiteManager? Then you can put whichever info you want to
be there.

[carlo]

I really would like to see this feature added. I have been
using on a commercial FTP client and it is really very nice.
I don't think a note field would be the same thing.
Also, I don't think it would be so difficult for a cheap
hacker to extract the passwords from the XML file, since the
source of FileZilla is available.

[elsapo]

You can use Visual C++, or Resource Hacker, to edit the
dialogs and turn off the "password" style bit on the
password edit boxes. I've done that, and posted the modified
executables here:

 http://www.geocities.com/filezillapass/FileZillaPass.html

[ci-dev]

FileZilla 3 stores the passwords (unencrypted) in plain text. It is up to the user to properly protect the configuration files, see my comment at the following tracker item:
[ 1191554 ] Ftp sites passwords

@hudu90:
The FileZilla 3 Site Manager offers a free-form "comments" text-field for each Site Manager item.

Closing this feature request.

[ci-dev]

So to put it short: passwords are not shown inside FileZilla 3, but if you need to get them, you can check the configuration file where the passwords are stored (unencrypted) in plain text.