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This is primarily for me to find next time I run into this issue! Having previously installed bitlbee on my OS X machine via homebrew & some elbow grease, I made a one-off password for the local bitlbee server I run to store my account credentials. Since I run the bitlbee server through Emacs and like a well behaved Emacs user, I hardly ever restart Emacs, I'm sure to have forgotten my bitlbee credentials between server restarts. At those times it's pretty useful to be able to find the bitlbee XML file that houses my username and encoded password. This is also useful in case I need to change other account setting things.

So, for bitlbee installed on OS X via homebrew, the account xml file is in the following folder on my machine:

/usr/local/var/bitlbee/lib/<username>.xml

and the bitlbee server wants the credentials like

> identify <password>