security issues

[Colin Brace]

On 3/14/06, Lamp <lampajoo at gmail.com> 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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  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam