[28450] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: external access and passwd mgmt (was Re: SSH on Cisco ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn McMahon)
Sun Apr 30 17:46:56 2000
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:44:15 EDT
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
To: Bennett Todd <bet@rahul.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Bennett Todd wrote:
>
> GNU Keyring <URL:http://gnukeyring.sourceforge.net/> is your friend.
> Store passwords in your Palm, with no fears for the security of the
> backups or the loss of the Palm. And it can generate nice passwords,
> too.
However, it marks the database file as "no backup" by default, and you have
to use third-party tools to change that.
Oh, and that stuff about having a week to change the battery before you
lose your data after the screen goes blank; rubbish. :-)
Since it's entirely likely that you'll pick a weak passphrase to protect
the Palm keyring, if you *DO* change the backup bit on that database, don't
sync it at work.
Or, leave the backup bit alone, so it doesn't back up on hotsync, but use a
third-party backup tool to grab the whole shebang frequently.
Yes, I learned this the hard way.
