Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (233 mails)

["Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > On 12/4/2008 at 1:16 PM, Marcus Hüwe <suse-tux@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Pretty doubtful, as probably he's not editing the .oscrc that often ;)
so just by looking over the shoulder, hardly any damage can be done. But
maybe I interpreted more than there is... could be.

Dominique
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