[SOLVED] view cookies from command prompt?

s3ns4i · 03-11-2011, 08:42 AM

I was curious if I would be able to view cookies from a command prompt when ssh'd into a machine. On a test machine running fedora 13, I found that the cookies were stored in a cookies.sqlite. I made sure that all instances of Firefox was closed and attempted to view the file running the following command

sqlite3 cookies.sqlite

It loaded but I was unable to run view any of the information because the database was locked? There were no instances of Firefox running and I check to make sure there were no services of Firefox running as well. Am I doing something wrong? Is this not the correct way to view cookies from the command line ? I have tried google searches and has since been unable to come up with anything. If any of you could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

bsdunix · 03-11-2011, 10:39 AM

I was able to view the file from the console and using SSH. I followed the instructions from this post:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...7/#post3473663

David the H. · 03-11-2011, 10:43 AM

Try making a copy of the sqlite file and reading from it instead. That worked for me once when I was trying to write a script that needed to fetch a cookie, without worrying if FF was running or not.

Guttorm · 03-11-2011, 10:59 AM

Code:

FILENAME=$(find ~/.mozilla -type f -name cookies.sqlite)
TEMPNAME="/tmp/cookies.sqlite"
cp $FILENAME $TEMPNAME
sqlite3 $TEMPNAME "select * from moz_cookies"

s3ns4i · 03-11-2011, 12:39 PM

Thanks everyone for the quick reply. It worked as you all stated, copied the file to another directory and was able to view it. Thanks again!!!