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Sign upBackup: do not pass passphrases on cmd line #2777
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Duplicate of #1582 |
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(and in fact already fixed in 4.0 ;) ) |
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R4.0 Saving default backup profile writes plaintext passphrase #3500
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rootkovska commentedApr 26, 2017
While in theory this isn't much of a security problem (everything in dom0 is isolated and trusted), still if one keeps e.g. (h)top running, then occasionally these will pop up there, and somebody might shoulder-sniff it.