Re: [Fwd: Bug#258392: lftp should support encrypted passwords in bookmarks]

Nicolas Noble <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.lftp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

>Hello,
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>* Noèl Köthe <[email protected]> [040811 20:00]:
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>>what's you opinion about this?
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>true. Something that's missing in lftp. But I would encrypt all of the
>bookmarks, not just the passwords in the bookmark.
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>On the other hand when your sysadm really wants your accounts, he gets
>it. I have a similar problem here. :-)
>
>	Thomas
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"Crypting" lftp's bookmark would be about the same as the actual 
~~/.cvspass crypto: that is, a non efficient algorithm, which wouldn't 
prevent any sysadmin to uncrypt it. Or it would require typing an 
uncrypting password every time you launch lftp. What good would that be ?
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