Pidgin storing password in plain text.

[Sean Egan]

On 6/26/07, Alagarsamy <alagar at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>           I tried Pidgin-2.0 for linux. I find it really awesome. I
> added my yahoo account and also added auto-login feature for this. When
> i see the accounts.xml file in $HOME/.pidgin/accounts.xml, I shocked to
> see that my password was stored in plain text.

That shock is intended by design. See:
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords

-s.