From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 22:15:21 +0000 (+0000) Subject: spell X-Git-Tag: curl-7_9_7-pre2~20 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ab9374de57891b45579fca543cbea0f51f259288;p=curl spell --- diff --git a/docs/libcurl-the-guide b/docs/libcurl-the-guide index 27eb954d5..8c41693f5 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl-the-guide +++ b/docs/libcurl-the-guide @@ -949,11 +949,11 @@ Security Considerations .netrc is a pretty handy file/feature that allows you to login quickly and automaticly to frequently visited sites. The file contains passwords in clear text and is a real security risk. In some cases, your .netrc is also - stored in a home directory that is NFS mounter or used on another network + stored in a home directory that is NFS mounted or used on another network based file system, so the clear text password will fly through your network every time anyone reads that file! - To avoid this problem, don't use .netrc files and never store passwords as + To avoid this problem, don't use .netrc files and never store passwords in plain text anywhere. Clear Text Passwords