Hi, On (19/12/05 18:58), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you use KDE, KWallet can be used to store random information as well > > as web site passwords etc. > > Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The KDE Wallet system is pretty much ideally suited to storing this > > kind of data. > > I wondered what that thing was... > > I do run kde but for my needs what ever I end up using will have to be > easily accessable from console mode or an ssh login too. > > Am I right in thinking kwallet requires kde to be running? > > If I were to simply create *.tar.gz or rar archive and then gnupgp > encrypt that file, deleting source would that be problematic? > What i'm using is a separate encrypted partition made with loop-eas. Just copy the key-file open the partition erase key-file first, do backup or refresh it then close. Could also be a file but there were some drawbacks. If anybody hacks this system they can't open the partition. > I can see it would not be terribly handy but at the size of data I'm > talking about it could be scripted and be pretty fast when I needed > something. I'm thinking the biggest headache would be deleting the > source after each visit. > > There are tools like emacs that can deal with a tar file transparently > but then I've introduced another player into the scheme. > > What else to people have experience with? > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > HTH.Rumen
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