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Bradfordbrad Neither Microsoft Account sign-in nor sync is currently available for Edge-Linux. Both appear to be planned for release at some point in the future, but Microsoft has not given us any information about when those basic features will be available despite repeated inquiries. Based on the history of development lag for Edge-Linux, it may well be months. You might be able to retrieve your passwords through Microsoft Support, signing in to your MSA with Firefox or whatever browser is used on your Linux machine.
tomscharbach wrote:Bradfordbrad Neither You might be able to retrieve your passwords through Microsoft Support, signing in to your MSA with Firefox or whatever browser is used on your Linux machine.
I don't think so. Microsoft support shouldn't have access to user passwords, even if the data is not encrypted, which they are (see below), they're not going to give out user password in plain text, not even on a file.
that'd just sound ridiculous.
"hey Microsoft support, what's my Facebook password?"
"here you go sir: fAcEbO0k0231"
Questions & answers about Microsoft Authenticator app - Azure AD | Microsoft Docs
- Cloud and network security: Your passwords on the cloud are encrypted and decrypted only when they reach your device. Passwords are synced over an SSL-protected HTTPS connection, which ensures no attacker can eavesdrop on sensitive data when it is being synced. We also ensure we check the sanity of data being synced over network using cryptographic hashed functions (specifically, hash-based message authentication code).
These are the same passwords as Edge. Authenticator app and Edge now share the encrypted passwords. when you change your password for a website on Edge, the password is also changed in Authenticator app, because they use the same encrypted database.