password safes for mac

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Wed Jul 1 12:32:40 EDT 2009


Adam Shostack <adam at homeport.org> writes:
> 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?  

I think he's pointing out a more general problem.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com

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