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Re: clearcerts vs. clear-netscape-password, etc.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Sep 26 19:57:04 2002

Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:55:01 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
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[ decimated the cc list ]

It occurs to me that the "smart" solution to concerns about certs being
erased by accident is to preserve the old {cert,key}*.db files
somewhere else, so that if the user ever remembers the password,
they can get them back.

Perhaps moving them to oldcerts/YYMMDD/ or something.

--jhawk

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