Re: Filezilla's silent caching of user's credentials

[silky <michaelslists () gmail com>]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Mutiny <mutiny () kevinbeardsucks com> wrote:
> The issue is that someone gained access to that file.  You sharing your
> drives over the internet with read privileges?  You have other
> vulnerable software being leveraged to read that file?  Would you prefer
> they MD5'd it?  It sounds like your issue is that your password is
> stored.  I mean, they moved your encrypted password from passwd to
> shadow for a reason, but that doesn't change the fact that it's stored
> and if someone doesn't need access to shadow or passwd, they shouldn't
> have it.
>
> Stop logging into your FTP server from a public terminal with Filezilla.

Rubbish.

The passwords should be encoded so-as to avoid trivial searching. End
of story. It takes 10 minutes to do from a development point of view,
and there is no excuse.

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