static gchar security

[Jacob Perkins <jap1 users sourceforge net>]

How (in)secure would it be to have a static gchar that would save a
plaintext password?  The gchar would start off null, but could later
contain a password, and is static for the life of the app.  Is there a
better way to do this?

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