Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (233 mails)

[Marcus Hüwe <suse-tux@xxxxxx>]

On 2008-12-04 12:56:44 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > > > On 12/4/2008 at 12:54 PM, Marcus Hüwe <suse-tux@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > First thanks for your patch but I'm a bit hesitant to add a gnome
> dependency
> > to osc (although it's optional). What about if we simply store the
> password
> > base64 encoded in the ~/.oscrc file? Wouldn't this be sufficient?
>
> BASE64 is as good as no encryption at all. Trying to obfuscate has
> nothing to do with securing anything.
Of course it has nothing to do with security but it prevents others
from "stealing" one's password by just "looking over the shoulder".
I thought this was his main concern.

> The patch looks like it takes quiet nicely care of skipping in case
> it's not available... maybe it can be extended with a configure
> parameter, if it should try to be used at all:
> use-gkm: 1
> in ~/.oscrc
Yes you're right the patch itself looks good.


Marcus
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