Hi Kristof, pwsafe has been removed from Debian. It has a number of problems (this being one of the least, honestly) and nobody stepped up to take it on when I couldn't do it. If you'd like to maintain it (or want to find someone who can) I would be happy to help sponsor.
Later, Mako <quote who="Kristof Provost" date="Wed, May 11, 2011 at 08:22:09PM +0200"> > The man page is incorrect: pwsafe simply doesn't implement this feature. > It never checks the $DISPAY variable until it tries to access the X clip > board. If that fails it will return a failure instead of simply printing > the password. > > I don't think it'd be a huge amount of work to make pwsafe behave as > described in the man page, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea to. > > Assume the following scenario: > The user has his laptop connected to a projector and is sharing his > desktop. He wants to log in to a secure website. pwsafe can send the > password to his clipboard, so that would be fine. However, for some > reason $DISPLAY is not set. If the behavior implemented in the manual is > implemented the password would just be printed and anyone could > photograph, remember or film it. > > I admit this is a fairly unlikely scenario, so if I'm the only one with > this concern I'd be willing to look into writing a patch to implement > the feature as described in the manual page. > > Regards, > Kristof > > -- Benjamin Mako Hill m...@atdot.cc http://mako.cc/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
