Secure Passwords in Memory

[Eric Gillespie, Jr.]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 05:31:56PM -0400,
Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> Without having *full* control over the region of memory where the
> password is stored, you're probably wasting much of your time with this
> and lulling yourself or your users into a false sense of security.

But isn't it true that only root can look in those places? If
not, then i don't see that there's much i can do about this.
Forcing the user to login as root is not an option.

-- 
Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> epg at progenylinux.com
Software Developer
Progeny Linux Systems - http://progenylinux.com

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