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["Kevin L. Mitchell" <kevin.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 13:50 -0700, Bhuvaneswaran A wrote:
> > The wiki mentions the password being saved using
> > keyring.backend.UncryptedFileKeyring. Does that mean the password is
> saved
> > in cleartext? Is the file protected in some way besides filesystem
> > permissions?
> 
> As mentioned in wiki page, the password is stored in base64 format. 

Which means it's stored in cleartext.  That is Not Good(tm) :)
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Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>