Bug#402010: gosa leaves the ldap admin password readable by any web application

2008-04-03 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Petter proposel does not work with GOsa, because it doesn't fit the concept. The users do not know the ldap admin password - and they shouldn't. Like they shouldn't know the database passwords for a web application of your choice. I don't get the problem - sorry. I can place a note in the

Bug#402010: gosa leaves the ldap admin password readable by any web application

2006-12-07 Thread Finn-Arne Johansen
Package: gosa Version: 2.5.6-2 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: root security hole The documentation in gosa tells the admin to install gosa.conf under /etc/gosa/gosa.conf, and to make it readable by the group www-data. In this configuration file, the ldap admin password is

Bug#402010: gosa leaves the ldap admin password readable by any web application

2006-12-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: Package: gosa Version: 2.5.6-2 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: root security hole The documentation in gosa tells the admin to install gosa.conf under /etc/gosa/gosa.conf, and to make it readable by the group www-data. In this configuration

Bug#402010: gosa leaves the ldap admin password readable by any web application

2006-12-07 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Donnerstag 07 Dezember 2006 14:37 schrieb Finn-Arne Johansen: Package: gosa Version: 2.5.6-2 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: root security hole The documentation in gosa tells the admin to install gosa.conf under /etc/gosa/gosa.conf, and to make it readable by the

Bug#402010: gosa leaves the ldap admin password readable by any web application

2006-12-07 Thread Finn-Arne Johansen
Cajus Pollmeier skrev: Am Donnerstag 07 Dezember 2006 14:37 schrieb Finn-Arne Johansen: Package: gosa Version: 2.5.6-2 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: root security hole The documentation in gosa tells the admin to install gosa.conf under /etc/gosa/gosa.conf, and to make

Bug#402010: gosa leaves the ldap admin password readable by any web application

2006-12-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
One way to solve it is to require the people accessing the LDAP database using the web to provide the LDAP admin password during the interaction, and not store it in clear text on the server. One way to avoid having to pass the LDAP admin password every time is to store it in a cookie. It would