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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] configure.ac: fix default behavior
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Am 22.11.2014 um 10:43 schrieb Steffan Karger:
> Hi Yegor,
> 
> On 21-11-14 20:43, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
>> This patch is a result of our IRC discussion with Arne. Alternative
>> approach were to always build with password-save functionality without
>> configure option at all.
> 
> Thanks for the patch. But this explanation doesn't help me much in
> understanding why this feature needs to be enabled by default. Could you
> please explain?

You can't stop the user doing stupid things, so why bother?
Print a warning instead, or if the password is read from auto-mounted
USB keys during boot-up, that might be considered safe enough...

ACK from me.