Hi,

 The problem is that Ranger needs to know the password, to reach out to the
service, so it must store the password somewhere in a decryptable state.
Ideally, every service/protocol should support kerberos, so authentication
could work without passwords.

Regards,
 Zsombor

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:21 PM Rempter, A. (Adam)
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> While using Ranger I noticed that when I create service def with input
> property:
>    {
>         "itemId": 3,
>         "name": "password",
>         "type": "password",
>         "subType": "",
>         "mandatory": true,
>         "validationRegEx": "",
>         "validationMessage": "",
>         "uiHint":"",
>         "label": "Secret key"
>       }
>
> Ranger will encrypt it using:
>
> if (StringUtils.equalsIgnoreCase(configKey, CONFIG_KEY_PASSWORD)) {
>                              String cryptConfigString = CRYPT_ALGO + ","
> +  ENCRYPT_KEY + "," + SALT + "," + ITERATION_COUNT + "," + configValue;
>                              String encryptedPwd =
> PasswordUtils.encryptPassword(cryptConfigString);
>
> Problem is that all encryption parameters are stored next to password
> (encryption key and salt):
>
> | 609 | NULL | 2019-01-08 10:07:33 | 2019-01-08 10:07:34 |           1 |
>        1 |      82 | password                                  |
> PBEWithMD5AndDES,tzL1AKl5uc4NKYaoQ4P3WLGIBFPXWPWdu1fRm9004jtQiV,f77aLYLo,1000,6IxJOOpoFsJXyLNjNf/M9Q==
>
> Even if I change default ones in
> $ranger_home/ews/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/conf/ranger-admin-default-site.xml,
> they will still be storred in db
>
> Is this know issue? Basically it means that password can be decrypted with
> little effort…
>
> Thanks,
> Adam Rempter
>
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