have a firewall on it and only open the port to jspui or xmlui

On 4/23/19, Mark H. Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 09:56:48AM -0700, Ramón Cordeiro wrote:
>> How can I hidden the credentials inside dspace.cfg. These data are in
>> plain
>> text and I worry about hacker atack.
>>
>> Is there a way to encryp or hidden these data in the same time the dspace
>>
>> work without problem ?
>
> No.  This is a general problem, not restricted to DSpace.  If the
> credentials in the DSpace configuration were encrypted, DSpace could
> not start without the decryption key, which would have to be stored on
> the system in plain text.
>
> No closed system can be fully protected by secrets.  It must hold at
> least one unprotected secret or it cannot fully start.  That one
> unprotected secret could be used by an intruder to get the other
> secrets.
>
> The only way around this that I know of is to open the system:
> require an operator to provide the key at startup.  How to do that
> would be very dependent on the local operating environment and
> policies.
>
> Here we use normal filesystem permissions to restrict access to the
> DSpace configuration from console users; use the DBMS' access controls
> to limit which remote hosts can connect to the database; and do not
> expose remote console access on a public address.
>
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