True, it can relief some of the pain. Of course, there's still pain after a reboot - and sometimes, you need passwords at boot time (if one or more boot scripts need them). Also, I presume keyagent isn't storing all its state on disk, which makes it not a solution for cluster environments. Which of course you do you, to minimize downtime in case of failures, don' you? ;-)

It's really a hard issue, and probably not really solvable. Having someone available all the time at the console usually isn't possible. Doing away with passwords isn't the solution either. So, passwords will be have to stored in files sometimes. OTOH, we shouldn't abandon all hope. If you can't rely on file system security, then nothing will be save anyway. /dev and /proc will be great sources of information, and most likely, your write permission won't hold either.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Embed passwords (SSH) by Abigail-II
in thread Embed passwords (Acme::Clutter idea) by Solo

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