Re: view-lossage and passwords

[Andreas Röhler]

Geralt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just used Emacs built-in bug-reporting facility (M-x
> report-emacs-bug RET) and among some other information this includes
> the lossage, so if passwords are included in the lossage this is
> definitely a security bug. I just tried that with Emacs 23.1.1 and I
> can't confirm that bug, it looks like the lossage is flushed after the
> password prompt finishes.
> 
> 
> 
> Geralt.
> 


Hi,

it's not flushed in a similar case with

In GNU Emacs 23.1.92.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
 of 2010-02-19

filed a bug report meanwhile:

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5664

Andreas

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