ssl without keystorePass in open text in server.xml

2014-01-30 Thread Ja kub
is it possible not to write keystorePass in open text server.xml, and make tomcat to ask for it at startup ? or specify only some hash of it (rather not possible) ? BR J.

Re: ssl without keystorePass in open text in server.xml

2014-01-30 Thread Mark Thomas
On 30/01/2014 09:46, Ja kub wrote: is it possible not to write keystorePass in open text server.xml, and make tomcat to ask for it at startup ? or specify only some hash of it (rather not possible) ? http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Password Mark

Re: ssl without keystorePass in open text in server.xml

2014-01-30 Thread Арсений Зинченко
Why are plain text passwords in the config files? Because there is no good way to secure them. When Tomcat needs to connect to a database, it needs the original password. While the password could be encoded, there still needs to be a mechanism to decode it. And since the source to Tomcat is freely