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From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: 17187@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17187: 24.3.50.1 open-dribble-file stores pw
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 18:37:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53403137.2000202@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv61mnpyia.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>

Am 05.04.2014 17:50, schrieb Stefan Monnier:
> severity 17187 important
> thanks
>
>> As suggested a decade ago,
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2003-10/msg00229.html
>> the dribble file should be created with file permission bits = 600.
>
> Very much agreed.
>
>
>          Stefan
>

Will that solve the matter already? IMO a pw should never be stored as plain-text.
File-permissions are not considered save in that context.

Should be a way to replace the chars by "*" for example before writing it.

Andreas






  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-05 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-04 17:35 bug#17187: 24.3.50.1 open-dribble-file stores pw Andreas Röhler
2014-04-04 21:42 ` Glenn Morris
2014-04-05  7:54   ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-05  7:58   ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-05 15:50   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-05 16:37     ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2014-04-05 16:55       ` Andreas Schwab
2014-04-05 18:07         ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-05 19:24           ` Andreas Schwab
2014-04-05 17:22     ` Glenn Morris
2014-04-05 22:02       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-05 23:01         ` Glenn Morris
2014-04-05 23:14           ` Daniel Colascione
2014-04-06  2:05             ` Glenn Morris
2014-04-11  5:49           ` Glenn Morris

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