----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <[email protected]> > To: "Eli Mesika" <[email protected]> > Cc: "engine-devel" <[email protected]>, "Yair Zaslavsky" > <[email protected]>, "Juan Hernandez" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 8:55:05 AM > Subject: Re: Dropping encryption of database password > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Eli Mesika" <[email protected]> > > To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <[email protected]> > > Cc: "engine-devel" <[email protected]>, "Yair Zaslavsky" > > <[email protected]>, "Juan Hernandez" > > <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 3:45:06 AM > > Subject: Re: Dropping encryption of database password > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <[email protected]> > > > To: "engine-devel" <[email protected]> > > > Cc: "Yair Zaslavsky" <[email protected]>, "Eli Mesika" > > > <[email protected]>, "Juan Hernandez" <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:41:20 PM > > > Subject: Dropping encryption of database password > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Currently we store database password encrypted using > > > org.picketbox.datasource.security.SecureIdentityLoginModule. > > > > > > This is reverse encryption with common knowledge shared secret. > > > > > > Using encryption with common knowledge shared secret is close to void > > > protection. > > > > > > So far we also stored the password as plain text at > > > /etc/ovirt-engine/.pgpass, this is going to be removed as no component > > > actually uses the .pgpass, however we do need to store non-java specific > > > password in for utilities. > > > > > > In master (aiming to 3.3), we store the database connection details in > > > own > > > file /etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/50-setup-database.conf owned by > > > ovirt > > > user and not world readable. > > > > > > I would like to use the same 50-setup-database.conf to store plain text > > > password and remove the java specific reversible encrypted password > > > usage. > > > > > > Bottom line... > > > 1. We drop the .pgpass file. > > > 2. We store database connection information in > > > /etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/<file> that is readable only by ovirt > > > usage. > > > 3. We drop the java specific reversible encryption in favor of plain > > > text. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > I see no problem in the .pgpass , only root can access it (it has 0600 mode > > , > > if it doesn't it is ignored by PG) > > Apart from that , this is the standard way used by PG so why not using it , > > AFAIK this is considered safe & secured > > In another words you are for storing password as plain text.... :)
If the file is protected , I don't mind that the password is in plain text... > > > > > > > > Alon > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Engine-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel
