Hongli Lai wrote:
Don't you already have to have root privilege before you can read other processes' raw memory?[hongli izumi hongli]$ cat /dev/mem > /dev/null cat: /dev/mem: Permission denied
When the keyring is unlocked, you can just ask the keyring daemon for the password. No need to go behind its back.
It simply isn't suitable for storing something like the root password (it is good enough for storing many web passwords though).
James.