On May 2, 2005, at 12:34, "Henry B. Hotz" via RT wrote: > Credential cache storage that goes away if you shut the machine down > (or crash it). Kind of like, oh, having the administrator put /tmp into a memory-based file system? I'd like to see us add a config-file option to specify the default directory for credentials, so that a small memory file system could be used for credentials without requiring that /tmp be that file system. But not revealing the data after a crash could be tricky on some systems, unless you do something like encrypting the file system in a key stored in some magic place in the kernel that is guaranteed to be wiped before the OS writes out a crash dump. Aside from making some recommendations about file system setups, you're basically asking us to invent OS-level functionality across platforms....