From kde-devel Tue Nov 11 19:30:33 2003 From: George Staikos Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:30:33 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: IBM Applies for Password Manager Patent X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=106857933327757 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 13:40, Richard Garand wrote: > On November 11, 2003 07:42 am, George Staikos wrote: > > Horrible idea... Where do we store your password in order to do this? > > It also defeats the "walk away from the terminal and the wallet is still > > accessible" safeties. I think it's very convenient, but a bad idea from > > a security perspective. > > That's what locking the desktop is for - I do it all the time, so I can > safely leave root shells on several machines open while I'm away. You can access the machine many ways other than through the screen that's locked. That was just one example. It's not worthwhile listing them all again. If all you want for your passwords is protection via you login password, use a plain text file. -- George Staikos KDE Developer http://www.kde.org/ Staikos Computing Services Inc. http://www.staikos.net/ >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<