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Josh Elser commented on ACCUMULO-1720:
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I had thought that the point of the instance.secret was to be used to mitigate
some of this concern. Was the instance.secret set in the case you noticed?
Regardless, we could probably do something better.
> Accumulo saves the root user's password in the clear in Zookeeper
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> Key: ACCUMULO-1720
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1720
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: tserver
> Affects Versions: 1.5.0
> Reporter: Michael Allen
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> In reviewing some of the security around users, it came to my attention that
> Accumulo stores the root user's password within Zookeeper in the clear.
> Grepping through Zookeeper's data files proves this out (as does inspecting
> the code).
> This passwords should be stored heavily salted and hashed, as the other user
> passwords are. Is there any reason why it isn't?
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