Hi Martin, On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:01:16PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Patrick Ben Koetter <p...@state-of-mind.de> [2012.08.16.2044 > +0200]: > > Putting passwords in configs isn't something I like, so > > I pull them from the Gnome keyring: > > Not a bad idea, but now an attacker with access to the filesystem > doesn't have to run 'cat ~/.muttrc' but 'gnome-keyring-query get mutt' > instead.
isn't one of the purposes of gnome-keyring daemon to store the passwords encrypted on disk while they are unused and unlock that keyring once the user want's to do so? Btw: Does anyone have a cool setup that is less dependent on gnome? I'm using awesome for a while now and want to avoid more dependancies on gnome. Regards, Andre -- Andre Klärner Telefon: 0351/79666546 Fax: 0351/79688547 Mobil: 0172/9838653
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