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| author | Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> | 1999-11-23 19:17:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> | 1999-11-23 19:17:31 +0000 |
| commit | 35abfd4b2826db9a2ca42d1fc304ba4c47c33f28 (patch) | |
| tree | c905266d1a5b1fb7152504cbbbaaa054c89a3fcd /doc | |
| parent | ab7abf9320fd39cb0827a8c83783c407fb29ac15 (diff) | |
Disable core dumps before we ask the user for a pass phrase.
Suggested by <Stefan.Alfredsson@kau.se>.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/PGP-Notes.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/doc/PGP-Notes.txt b/doc/PGP-Notes.txt index a5faa654..bdf79429 100644 --- a/doc/PGP-Notes.txt +++ b/doc/PGP-Notes.txt @@ -124,18 +124,6 @@ as well. -Q: "Isn't there a security problem that mutt leaves the - passphrase in memory which will be dumped into core - files upon errors?" - -Yes, you may consider this a security problem. To work -around this, disable core dumps using resource limits. On -most systems, this will be the following instruction in -your shell: - - ulimit -c 0 - - |