On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Paul E Condon <pecon...@mesanetworks.net> wrote: > I run Wheezy, desktop Xfce. I want to start using a password > safe. [...]
I don't know if this is going to be another of my suggestions that will prove incendiary or not, but, really, think carefully about this. One, every piece of software that touches your passwords is one more that can see them and might be perverted to give it up to someone you don't want to give it up to. (Not talking about helping in the execution of wills here.) Two, password safes are easy to build. If you haven't built one yet, give it a try. The only problem with building your own is choosing (or choosing not to use) an API to follow so that software can pass the authentication job off to your home-built password safe, but I personally see that as a feature. The reason why is because of the the next point: Three, I already seem to have installed two password safes. I'm not sure how, except that the KDE one was probably part of some package provided by the boys at KDE, and the Gnome one, well, by the boys at Gnome. They aren't called safes, they are called wallets. And they aren't mine. (See points one and two.) Four, I actually have a third safe installed. It's called gnupg. It's a little baroque, but at least it doesn't jump in and say "LET ME HELP YOU! LET ME HELP YOU! WHY WON'T YOU LET ME HELP YOU?!?!?!?!?!" every time I run an svnsync. (Yeah, I'm new to svnsync, and not all that familiar with svn. Still get a bit confused when switching between git and svn. I'm sure I'm supposed to have set something up in the svn configurations to tell wallets and such to stay the longest way away from my authentication chain.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caar43iphap6yccr9bzuykqov_ohzth5zuxzdsvones8vfc4...@mail.gmail.com
