A revelation about revelation]
Tim Waugh
twaugh at redhat.com
Tue Nov 28 15:49:02 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 09:43 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> passwds. I have a question about this. When I wrote a script to do this
> I included a password that was needed to access the passwd database.
>
> revelation does not have such a feature. So if someone got root access
> to your machine they could find out all your passswds.
Eh? Of course it can password-protect the password database! In fact,
it asks you for one the first time you press Save. File->Change
Password to change it.
Tim.
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