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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Saving of passwords (Was: Security status)
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       2000-02-08 8:19:53
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On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, George Staikos wrote:
> > > By pulling sensitive data out of the config file and into a
> > > seperate file it is easier to give this file the right permissions.
> >
> >    Yes it's easier to set the permissions just on the password and
> > not on the rest of the config information.  I think it's still a
> > pain.  The .kde dir is already so large.  We're just making it
> > larger.  Plus now we have to files to move around from machine to
> > machine for those of us who do such things.
>
> [SNIP]
>
> >   The mail program should set the proper file permissions.  This
> > still isn't a reason to have 2 files for the config data.
>
> Well, if you think it is easier to let KMail set 0600 permissions on
> kmailrc then that's fine with me too.

As it was said before: this is not something that kmail needs to solve.

Fix it in KConfig and you are done for all other apps too 
(kppp, kbiff, empath, ...)

--Stefan

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