[ubuntu-uk] Warning to all users of Samba

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 21/04/10 09:03, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 21 April 2010 08:41, Alan Lord (News)<alanslists at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Are you *sure* they are in plain text?
>>
>
> No, but if someone has access to your entire home directory, and thus
> all of .mozilla (and your passwords database) surely all they need do
> is pick up that folder and plop it on their own filesystem? The
> Firefox UI has an option to "show passwords".

That is indeed true but "plain text" is a tad misleading. You can always 
password protect the password manager to prevent easy access like this.

Al


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