[Bug 247482] Review Request: pwsafe - A unix command line utility that manages encrypted password databases

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Summary: Review Request: pwsafe - A unix command line utility that manages encrypted password databases


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247482





------- Additional Comments From jochen at herr-schmitt.de  2007-07-11 12:46 EST -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> Leaving the dist tag out of the changelog entry does not make rpmlint happy,
> either. It will complain as long as the E-V-R of the package and the E-V-R of
> the latest changelog entry do not match.

I have to disagree with your. For demonstration please look at:

http://www.herr-schmitt.de/pub/pwsafe/pwsafe-0.2.0-0.2.fc7.src.rpm

You will find out, that this source rpm makes rpmlint happy.
 
> The secure ram warning is about mlock() (marking a part of memory unswappable).
> mlock() requires root privileges. This seems to be used all over the place in
> pwsafe, and I do not feel comfortable at all about letting this effectively run
> as root.

That is ok. It may be nice, if you can contact the upstream to make your
improvements.


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