Re: What's the 'XXXXX.slt' subdir in the profile dir?

[Micah Harwell]

> On Linux, I have my profile data in ~/.mozilla/matt.  However, with
> the latest Mozilla build, it's in ~/.mozilla/matt/y2pre4ed.slt
> 
> What exactly is this ".slt" direcotry?

See the previous post by Jon explaining the purpose of the directory.

The .slt extension is short for "salt" (from unix?). Salt is a
randomly generated string that is used to help encrypt passwords and
such.

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