Re: Gnucash password protection and encryption

2001-03-04 Thread Jan Schrage
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:20:49AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Jan Schrage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Wellthis at least is only true in theory. There's hardly anything > > that's easier than getting root access on a machine you've got an > > account on, especially on a standard linux

Re: Gnucash password protection and encryption

2001-03-01 Thread Derek Atkins
I agree that Gnucash should not have builtin local-file encryption. Since Unix is a multi-user environment, you can protect the files by having different people log into different accounts. One thing we may want to do is make sure that Gnucash data files are mode 600 by default (or perhaps give

Re: Gnucash password protection and encryption

2001-03-01 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, > > Sounds like not a bad idea, you should pursue this on the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. > > --linas > > It's been rumoured that Booster said: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I am using Gnucash regularly, its really great. > > > > But I have

Re: Gnucash password protection and encryption

2001-03-01 Thread linas
Hi, Sounds like not a bad idea, you should pursue this on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. --linas It's been rumoured that Booster said: > > > Hello, > > I am using Gnucash regularly, its really great. > > But I have one problem, security. > > Could you please add an option to protect