GitHub user tinkoff-dwh opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/2145
[ZEPPELIN-2271] encoding password of credentials ### What is this PR for? Added a simple encoding of the password in the file (the credentials.json). Application administrator (Zeppelin) which has access to the file should not see user passwords at least as plain text. ### What type of PR is it? Improvement ### Todos - [ ] remove credentials.json (if exist) ### What is the Jira issue? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN-2271 ### How should this be tested? Add credentials: Entity: test.test Username: user Password: passwd Check content of file **credentials.conf**, password not equals "passwd" ### Questions: * Does the licenses files need update? no * Is there breaking changes for older versions? no * Does this needs documentation? no You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/tinkoff-dwh/zeppelin ZEPPELIN-2271 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/2145.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #2145 ---- commit ed27563102a0de46f867ce0cb92c9205320a8b3f Author: Tinkoff DWH <tinkoff....@gmail.com> Date: 2017-03-16T06:46:15Z [ZEPPELIN-2271] encoding password of credentials ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---