Public bug reported:
When filling out the password field in the Terminal Server Client, then
saving the connection info to a file, the password is stored as plain
text. Should consider hashing/salting it. I would say that anything is
better than simply storing it in plain text.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: tsclient 0.150-4ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 7 08:55:44 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tsclient
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-29 (68 days ago)
** Affects: tsclient (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty
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Saved connection info stores password in plain text
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