On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 09:36 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > 1) Credential caches are now stored in a tmpfs location. This is a
> > security feature, as a stolen laptop may not be booted in single-user
> > mode to extract a valid TGT.
> 
> Is it?  Can't tmpfs move stuff arbitrarily out to swap?

Ah, true. This could happen in a low-memory case. I should perhaps
revise this statement then to be "This is a security feature, as a
stolen laptop booted in single user mode will have a much more difficult
time of extracting a valid TGT".

This of course can be further mitigated by the use of encrypted swap
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