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New (local) Mac OS X vulnerability : Passwords in Swap files
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Doesn't seem to happen on my PowerBook |
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2004-06-27 22:34:34 |
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James_Elliott
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I've looked through all my swapfiles using that grep command, and although my user name shows up a number of times, followed by the word "password", my actual password does not appear anywhere.
I wonder what the difference is? I am also running OS X 10.3.4:
%uname -a
Darwin Alacrity.local 7.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.4.0: Wed May 12 16:58:24 PDT 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.7.7.obj~7/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
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