Re: Wiki access policy

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 09:05 -0600, James Graves wrote:
> Since we are all good netizens, we will use a different password for 
> distinct sites to prevent someone who breaks into one site from 
> accessing our other accounts.
> 
> So if you 'get around' to the extent that I do, it wouldn't be unusual 
> to have over 100 of them. 

You want PassPet mate.
http://www.passpet.org

Speaking of which, does anyone on e-lang know when / if we're likely to
see a PassPet release? I've been eagerly awaiting it since I read the
SOUPS paper. 

In the meantime, you may be able to get mileage with Alan Karp's
Password Safe, which appears to be a less feature-ful predecessor of
PassPet.
http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/personal/Alan_Karp/site_password/index.html


> P.S. Isn't obj-cap security supposed to fix all this?  :-)

Instead of writing down 100 different passwords, you'll have 100
different bookmarked YURLs...  But each site will probably then
implement a YURL-recovery scheme for when you reinstall your machine and
lose all of your bookmarks that's based on username/password ;)