https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690514 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690514#c3 --- Comment #3 from Petr Uzel <puzel@novell.com> 2011-04-29 13:56:50 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2)
I don't see any security gain from disallowing copy&paste. What's the threat this is supposed to protect against?
Originally, my impression was that even displaying the password on the screen and copying it to X clipboard might pose a security risk (yes, nothing pinentry could protect against anyway). OTOH, on second thought, if some process has access to X clipboard, it has probably also other ways of getting to the password and also inability to use 'too-long-to-type-in' passwords won't improve security. Just checked kdesu and gnomesu and both allow pasting. IOW, I'm convinced ;) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.