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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Data packs


From: Karsten Hilbert
Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] Data packs
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:51:47 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 01:21:32PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> >> In which caseā€¦ what is it that allows new connections
> >> without re-providing the GNUmed userid and password
> > 
> > gmPG2.py
> > 
> >> (i.e. without re-autenticating) ?
> > 
> > It does re-authenticate with each new read-write connection.
> 
> In the absence of the user re-inputting their userid and
> password, this must mean these were 'held onto' ...

Indeed.

> I trust in memory and not on disk (or might they exist
> written in some temporary file) ?

As far as GNUmed is concerned - yes. However, if the system
gets under memory pressure and decides to swap out to disk
pages holding the relevant GNUmed code the credentials may
end up in swap space.

Karsten
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