Re: security issues
- From: "Colin Brace" <cb@xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:13:18 +0100
On 3/14/06, Lamp <lampajoo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why on God's green earth was the password ever written to a file in
the first place?!?!?? I use ubuntu because it's "easy," not expecting
it to be ultra secure, but this is ridiculous. To compound the
problem the explanation given is awful... "since these files were
world-readable" should have been, "some dumbass wrote code that wrote
clear text passwords to disk"--the readability of the files is
irrelevant.
"The mantra of course applies here: Unless you've programmed a totally
secure operating system, keep your mouth shut."
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=180016&cid=14905505
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