On Wednesday 18 January 2006 2:03 pm, Anurag wrote: > Sometime on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:50:46PM +0530, Sanket Medhi said: > > Yes! :) But I think there should be something else in these > > widely used tools to configure proxy. Storing the > > username/password in such a way is definitely insecure. > > As it is its insecure.
ssh port forwarding to the proxy. No plaintext on the wire. > The user must realise that his credentials > are being transported in plain text format over the network. That's > why there's no point in giving him/her false sense of security. > > For the same reason, fetchmail, gaim, internet dialers.. all store > passwords in plain text. > > Anurag > -- > __ __ > gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. > (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
