Hi all,
Following a discussion that we had with Christian, I would like to raise
a concern.
Now, on Karaf 2.x/3.x/4.x, the JMX layer is secure using RBAC. The
MBeanServerBuilder is enabled by default, meaning that it's not possible
to locally connect to the MBean server.
I think it's good and secure.
However, on the other hand, we have a key enabled by default (in
etc/keys.properties) and used by default by bin/client.
So it means that any user that download a Karaf distribution can connect
to any Karaf runtimes by default.
On one hand we have a very secure JMX layer (even for local connection),
but on the other hand, bin/client can connect to any Karaf running
instance (so not very secure).
I would like to propose the following:
- in etc/keys.properties, we should comment out the default key. We can
document how to enable it and how to change the keys.
- in bin/client, we should be able to specify a key that we want to use.
WDYT ?
I already created some Jira about the keys:
- KARAF-2786: I would change this one by comment out the default key
- KARAF-2836 to allow to specify multiple keys for an user in
etc/keys.properties
- KARAF-2787 to allow to specify the key to bin/client
Thanks,
Regards
JB
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