2006-01-24 Software

I use BitlBee for instant messaging. Since voice chat didn’t work with my mother (using AIM and Skype on Windows), I can focus on text-only alternatives again. I’ve been using Bitlbee for ages. So long, in fact, that I don’t remember the passwords for half of my accounts anymore. Today I installed Adium – a multi-protocol client that uses the Gaim library and has a slick user interface on OSX.

Adium

Gaim

See, I’m connected to five services:

23:40 **kensanata**

account list

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0. OSCAR, kensanata on login.oscar.aol.com (connected)

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1. OSCAR, 98129982 on login.icq.com (connected)

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2. JABBER, kensanata@amessage.ch (connected)

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3. JABBER, kensanata@gmail.com (connected)

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4. JABBER, as@jabber.fsfe.org (connected)

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End of account list

But I remember only two passwords:

Adium Account List

How do I hack my Bittlbee accounts file?

I can’t even change my ICQ password, because when I try to change it, I have to supply an Email address, and no matter which Email address I supply, it won’t work. AARGH! >{

Update*:

AIM

Google Talk

ICQ

Update*:

I found a comment in the source file `crypting.c` of BitlBee saying that you could compile an encode and a decode stand-alone binary! Hah! :D Ran a `make decode` and noticed that there was an error during linking:

gcc crypting.c protocols/md5.c [...]
crypting.c: In function `setpassnc':
crypting.c:75: warning: implicit declaration of function `irc_usermsg'
[...]
ld: Undefined symbols:
_irc_usermsg
make: *** [encode] Error 1

Since I didn’t need the sources for anything else, I just deleted the offending line in the file and compiled it. And the result: It works! 😄

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