On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 17:58, Manas Laha wrote: > If the file is not readable (because of properly set permissions) then > it doesn't matter if the password is not encrypted.
well, there may be a special case where it may help. say if some application is (perhaps mistakenly) setuid root, then that application would be able to read any file. but if a file was encrypted, that danger wasn't there. however, that will bring us round to the same argument - in the hands of an able cracker, one setuid-root binary may become the passe-partout to the whole system, making encryption irrelevant. - t. -- cogito, ergo es. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
