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[Adam Young <ayoung@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/30/2012 05:17 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote:
> 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) :)
Can Keyring be used to store a token instead?  That would A)  be better 
than password and B)  avoid a Keystone hit.