Hi,

Thank you for your answer.
I'm using Windows, not Linux.

Re,

Jorge

El mié, 15 feb 2023 a las 8:40, Matus UHLAR - fantomas (<uh...@fantomas.sk>)
escribió:

> On 15.02.23 08:26, Jorge Elissalde via clamav-users wrote:
> >Freshclam Proxy Password is stored as plain text in Freshclam.conf file.
> >
> >HTTPProxyPassword myownpassword
> >
> >Any user is able to read that password.
> >Is there a chance to store that password encrypted or in another place?
>
> It should be safe to set permissions to freshclam.conf only to be readable
> for owner, maybe group, dependending on your system:
>
> -r--r--r-- 1 clamav adm 715 Apr 24  2021 /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf
> % ps axuww | grep resh
> clamav    2646  0.0  0.0  66864  6380 ?        Ss   Jan30   0:19
> /usr/bin/freshclam -d --quiet --config-file=/etc/clamav/freshclam.conf
> --pid=/run/clamav/freshclam.pid
>
> Here, permissions 0400 would be enough.
>
> debian (and so I guess ubuntu) seems to do that automatically if password
> is set:
>
>    if [ -f "$FRESHCLAMCONFFILE" ] && [ ! -L "$FRESHCLAMCONFFILE" ]; then
>      # Tighten the permissions up if it contains a password
>      if [ -n "$ppass" ]; then
>        chmod 400 $FRESHCLAMCONFFILE
>      else
>        chmod 444 $FRESHCLAMCONFFILE
>      fi
>
>      chown "$dbowner":adm $FRESHCLAMCONFFILE
>    fi
>
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