Privacy

[ghaverla at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca]

> >>>Gnucash should be password protected.
> >>
> >>Why?  The OS already handles permissions and security, and does it
> >>well.  

> > Example:
> > House with one computer .
> > Computer is running.
> > There comes your son ( and friend) Dad, Dad can I burn my CD?
> > Put in CD and start burning, but they can also click on GC and open it, not 
> > that I have any secrets but they can.
> > Password protected they can't.
> > The other two Linux money programs I used before had an option to assign a 
> > password.
> > 
> > If anybody knows a solution for this problem ( apart from " don't let him do 
> > that , or tell him to log in as a different user) I'll be glad to hear that.
> 
> Touche!, exactly my point.

This whole question is _philosophical_, not technical.  If someone
can't adopt security as a philosophy, there is no technical
solution.  It is very easy to run a lockscreen to disable one X
"session" (say on VT7) and then have the other user login at
another X session (say on VT8).  If you want this other user to
not have a password, there are ways to arrange that.

But, even if you paid someone to alter gnucash for your own
purposes to have passwords, if you started this custom gnucash
using your password, and then stepped out to use the bathroom, the
gnucash session is unprotected.  Someone can still come along and
access your data.

Gord