Re: Filezilla a security risk
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:03:19AM +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> Hello francis,
>
> francis picabia <fpicabia@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Andrei POPESCU
> > <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mi, 27 iun 12, 16:26:48, francis picabia wrote:
> > >> I've just learned Filezilla is a security risk. It stores saved
> > >> passwords and the last used password in a plain text file.
> > >
> > > As do many other programs.
> >
> > Huh. None that I run. Perhaps your standards are, uh, different.
>
> Pidgin & OpenSSH if used without passphrases, just to name two
> examples. Claws-Mail applies some weird obfuscation that doesn't
> really help, except for that I have to store my passwords somewhere
> else in plaintext, too.
>
Where does OpenSSH store a password? Or are you referring to a
passphrase-less private key?
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