Transmit: how do I recover saved passwords?

[happywaffle]

Transmit conveniently saves all my FTP connection passwords, but seemingly not in a form that I can actually look at them. I checked out com.panic.transmit.plist in my Preferences folder, but the password didn't seem to be stored there; the "RemotePassword" key did have a "PasswordInKeychain" value, though.

Sooooo I checked Keychain Access, but there were no entries for Transmit, or for the site I was accessing.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Odds are you're in the right application (Keychain Access), but you're looking at the wrong keychain. There are multiple keychains, besides the login one.

 

[happywaffle]

That's a good thought, but I don't think that's it. I've got:

login - 215 items
Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates - 0 items
System - 24 items
System Roots - 0 items

So the only other possibility is System, but it only contains 22 AirPort network passwords, one Back to My Mac key, and one PPP password.

Any other ideas?

 

[whooleytoo]

For me, they are showing up in Keychain Access, as "Internet password"s; in the login keychain.

You should be able to verify if the passwords are being stored there, by locking the keychain then launching Transmit, and attempting to connect to a site. If the passwords are coming from Keychain Access, you'll be prompted to unlock the keychain.

 

[happywaffle]

Ah! That's the issue. Didn't even need to do the test, I just checked out my Internet passwords - they're recorded as the IP address, not the nicknames I'd given them in Transmit, which is why they didn't turn up in a search.

Problem solved, thanks!