From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Password protection
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:28:18 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxr1nv0d.fsf@rimspace.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31v8ec5pm.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> I find it sort of puzzling that we have to jump through all these hoops
> to get at credentials. I mean, Firefox users don't have to set up a gpg
> agent or type their passwords a gazillion times, so why should users?
I just shove mine into ~/.netrc, set appropriate permissions, and let the
whole thing be. I did my risk assessment, encrypted my entire disk, and was
satisfied that by the time someone could steal my password through there the
could equally steal it behind the back of any encryption.
So, yeah, I agree with you.
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-29 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-28 14:17 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 14:43 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29 14:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 14:46 ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-28 14:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 14:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-28 14:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 14:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-29 16:56 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-29 17:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 19:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-29 19:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-29 20:35 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-29 20:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 3:32 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 15:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 17:19 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 16:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 16:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 16:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 17:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 17:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 17:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 17:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 19:11 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 17:13 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-30 17:16 ` Michael Albinus
2010-09-29 21:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-25 22:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-05 11:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-07 17:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-28 15:02 ` David Engster
2010-09-29 2:28 ` Daniel Pittman [this message]
2010-09-29 4:39 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29 5:58 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-09-29 6:42 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29 8:54 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-29 9:07 ` Richard Riley
2010-09-29 10:23 ` Gijs Hillenius
2010-09-29 9:51 ` Tassilo Horn
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