On Thu, 2022-03-24 at 20:22 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > The text login approach also seems more secure. I can > imagine The Bad Guys creating a web page that looks just > like the generic mate-ubuntu login screen. If I type my > password into that, I'm /powned/.
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 08:45:24PM -0400, TomasK wrote: > This maybe not concern of yours - but - the login screen does more than > starting DE and logging you on. > > The first thing you may notice - your wallet/key-ring is not unlocked > at login. I presume "DE" = Desktop Environment. I am transitioning from older Redhat-derived distros to Mate-Ubuntu. I haven't yet encountered a wallet/key-ring for the mate-terminal and mostly-text tools that I use, but I can be clueless about such things. Please suggest documents or web-pages describing why a shared wallet or key-ring is necessary, and more secure than other password management means. I've heard those buzzwords, but there is nothing about them in my current working references: Debian Administrator's Handbook Ubuntu Linux Bible Mastering Ubuntu Server If I must learn this stuff eventually, I should do so before I get too old to learn. But if I can accomplish wallet/key-ring with text-based tools, I vastly prefer that to a GUI with a meaningless splash screen. Especially since I can sorta-kinda read the C code for ascii-based tools (it's like puzzling out Spanish or German), but graphic environment code (a zillion module calls) seems incomprehensible (like zillion-character Chinese). If I can't read it, I don't trust it. Keith P.S. Is a Rottweiler dog collar a secure key-ring? -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com
