Pinentry makes it awfully easy to snoop all passwords entered by the user

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 08/28/2013 02:46 PM, Niklas Schnelle wrote:

> However it would be nice to have a way to disable tracing for normal users,

If you use the linux kernel, take a look at the grsecurity patchset.  I
believe this is one of its features.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grsecurity/Appendix/Grsecurity_and_PaX_Configuration_Options#Ptrace_logging

	--dkg

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