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[Jim Hutchinson]

Plain text passwords than Andrew referred to have been fixed - I think.

On 9/25/07, Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:40:39PM -0600, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> > I think that's been fixed.
> >
> > On 9/25/07, Andrew <keen101 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I heard that the Canonical people were planning to fix the security flaw in
> > > Ubuntu, where passwords are kept in plain text.
>
> Huh?  You'll have to be a bit more specific there for me.
>
> But this google result was a disappointment for me about gaim/pidgin:
>
>  http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17964/Insecure-Passwords-on-GaimPidgin/
>
> $ grep password $HOME/.{gaim,pidgin}/accounts.xml
>
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