On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> reauthentication. (One of the reasons why I'll probably implement it > anyway is that storing the password in memory is probably still more > secure than creating a keytab file on disk.) FWIW, trick used in CMU SCS (and adopted in ECE) used kernel memory instead of user, by stashing it in a pipe when not in use. Read in, use, write to pipe, wipe program storage; read back in from pipe and repeat to reauth. -- brandon s allbery [email protected] wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
