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vondur 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in c...

Really in /etc plain text? I could see some random app possibly doing that somewhere in ~/.config, but I don't think Linux itself stores passwords in plain text for systemwide use.

tgv 4 months ago [–]

I think the commenter means that some Linux applications store the passwords they need for access to external resources in plain text.

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