Jamie Strandboge [2010-04-21 12:38 -0000]: > Obviously we can do an SRU/security update after the fact, but this > does, as Marc pointed out, leave a root escalation path for malware or > applications with a security hole.
That's a good point. Now that upstream has replied and confirmed that having the password in the keyring was an accident instead of a design decision to make other keyrings work, I have a much better feeling about this, so I'll do an upload to lucid and try to push it right after RC. -- the login password is stored in the user's keyring https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/566046 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-keyring in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
