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Daniel John Debrunner commented on DERBY-1056:
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Should this warning also be generated when the server is listening on an 
address that is not localhost?

-h mymachine.mydomain.com


> Print a security warning to derby.log and network server console if network 
> server is started with -h 0.0.0.0 and security manager, user authentication, 
> and ecrypted userid are not on
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>
>          Key: DERBY-1056
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1056
>      Project: Derby
>         Type: Improvement
>   Components: Network Server, Security
>     Reporter: Kathey Marsden
>      Fix For: 10.2.0.0

>
> Information and questions from the user list seem to indicate that often 
> users start network server with the -h 0.0.0.0 option without taking proper 
> security measures.    I think it would be worthwhile to print a security 
> warning the console and derby.log if network server is starated without the 
> proper security in place.
> Serious security issues exist when starting network server with the -h 
> 0.0.0.0 option unless users 
> - Run in security manager with permissions restricted as much as possible.
> - Enable user authentication
> - Use encrypted userid/password (Currently only available with IBMJCE)
> Even when started with the localhost default there can be security  issues  
> if the machine itself is not secure.
> An example of such an attack might include creating databases  until the host 
> machine disk filled up, deleting all user data etc.
> Related issues:
> DERBY-65
> DERBY-474
> DERBY -528
> DERBY-962

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