Re: password-store /dev/shm mfs

Jan Stary <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Aug 10 13:16:43, [email protected] wrote:
> When I try to edit a password with pass, I receive this warning:

There is no "pass". Do you mean passwd(1)?

> "Your system does not have /dev/shm, which means that it may
> be difficult to entirely erase the temporary non-encrypted
> password file after editing."

My system has no /dev/shm either and I doubt it exists on OpenBSD.
Yet I can still change my password with passwd.

> However, I put my tmp on mfs, does this solve the problem?

That question makes no sense. But I doubt the filesystem type of /tmp
has anything to do with shm or passwd.

Are you sure you are even using OpenBSD?

	Jan
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.