password safes for mac

Adam Shostack adam at homeport.org
Wed Jul 1 11:03:13 EDT 2009


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:26:06AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
| On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:29:48PM -0700, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
| > This would be great if LoginWindow.app didn't store your unencrypted
| > login and password in memory for your entire session (including screen
| > lock, suspend to ram and hibernate).
| > 
| > I keep hearing that Apple will close my bug about this and they keep
| > delaying. I guess they use the credentials in memory for some things
| > where they don't want to bother the user (!) but they still want to be
| > able to elevate privileges.
| 
| Suppose a user's Kerberos credentials are about to expire.  What to do?

What fraction of mac users are using Kerberos?  

Adam

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