A revelation about revelation]
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Nov 28 16:16:59 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 15:49 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> 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.
> */
>
You are of course correct. I did not take the process far enough.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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