Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:33:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@mt.sri.com, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, mark@grondar.za, jlemon@americantv.com Subject: Re: Security and other facilities at WC CDROM - the plan. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809241832430.1964-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199809242346.JAA10776@cimlogic.com.au>
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On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, John Birrell wrote: [..] > Alex wrote: > > Nah, I'm sure with the "magic" of GNU-Win32, you could compile key(1) as a > > Windows binary, stuff that on a web site somewhere and grab it whenever > > you're on a strange Windows box. Sure beats actually carrying around your > > passwords. > > GNU-Win32 requires you to put stuff in the registry on the box you run > it on. That's a "nice" thing to do to some unsuspecting person's machine. 8-) That assumes the unsuspecting person doesn't have GNU-Win32 already, and does check their registry throughly. It reall doesn't matter too much. If you were that worried about it, the Win32 port of gcc supports native Win32 stuff, and I'm sure a port of key(1) to use the native Win32 calls would be trivial. - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ |
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