On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Lsilverman
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I notice that the agentless/.passlist file stores the credentials in plain
> text!!! Is there a solution to encrypt this data and still have ossec be
> able to read it?
>
> We don't like the idea of our device IP/hostnames and their credentials
> stored in plaintext ;)
>
> Thanks
>
> Lou
>

Nope, that's pretty much how it goes.

I guess we could encrypt it, and have a file with the key/passphrase
to decrypt it on the drive. But that would be in plain text, so we
could encrypt it, and have a file with the key/passphrase to decrypt
it on the drive. But that would be in plain text, so we could encrypt
it, and have a file with the key/passphrase to decrypt it on the
drive. But that would be in plain text, so we could encrypt it, and
have a file with the key/passphrase to decrypt it on the drive.

Or, someone could type the password in every time it had to be used...

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