Re: [spice-gtk 0/5] Add support for looking up connection credentials in a file

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On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:18:12PM -0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > I disagree with this statement (even if this will not be solved by this
> > series). Something that is automatically used by spice-gtk when provided,
> > but which is not as insecure as putting the password in the URI would be
> > nice to have in spice-gtk.
> 
> The URI or API "password" property are not more insecure than a separate file.

A separate file with 0600 permissions will be more secure than passing a
password on the command line (which is then visible by other users using
ps).

Christophe

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