X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43960252.9010106@wpkg.org> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:27:46 +0100 From: Tomasz Chmielewski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-3mdk (X11/20051015) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Drash Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: encoding scripts (so that user can't see passwords easily)? References: <4392D119.7080409@wpkg.org> <20051204173646.GA28855@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <7ff9c2a10512060949l72e9693bv251e0d46c36ea0e0@mail.gmail.com> <4395E827.4070804@wpkg.org> <61f6f4390512061158o5a2ef71by6e1a419c8e6499b3@mail.gmail.com> <20051206140214.A4275@reliant.immure.com> <4395F187.2020908@wpkg.org> <61f6f4390512061320s512a55e8n84f27e486db0596@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <61f6f4390512061320s512a55e8n84f27e486db0596@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Jim Drash schrieb: > If someone can get physical access to the disk, then there is not a > single thing you can do to stop someone who is: > > 1) Knowledgeable > 2) Determined > 3) has time > 4) is a criminal But I could certainly stop someone who is *not* knowledgeable nor determined, and his "criminal cracking" gnowledge ends when he presses Enter after typing "grep -r password /". Why do you think mail clients, web browsers and other software don't store the passwords in plain? -- Tomek http://wpkg.org WPKG - software deployment and upgrades with Samba -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/