On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Tim van Deurzen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:34:34AM -0600, Christian Frank wrote:
>
>>    On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Matt Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>      On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Tim van Deurzen <[email protected]>
>>      wrote:
>>      > Hi,
>>      >
>>      > I've just installed Tracks 2.1 devel 0 on my Gentoo machine. Now my
>>      > problem is the following:
>>      >
>>      > When I look at the 'production.log' file I can see users' passwords in
>>      > plain text. I have spent the better part of two hours trying to find
>>      > some configuration setting or distinct logging setting to disable
>>      this.
>>      > However, I've come up blank. Is this a bug, a feature or a security
>>      hole
>>      > and how do I fix it?
>>      >
>>      >
>>      > Kind regards,
>>      >
>>      > Tim.
>>
>>      Hi Tim,
>>
>>      Could you be a bit more specfic about what you're seeing in the logs
>>      and where you're seeing it? For example, when I log in, this is what i
>>      see in my production.log file.
>>
>>      Processing LoginController#login (for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-01-10 10:05:26)
>>      [POST]
>>       Parameters: {"user_login"=>"admin", "action"=>"login",
>>      "authenticity_token"=>"j0x/fd15ORwIwUYAXkcHfRxoRX5sDSujk723B4nRA64=",
>>      "controller"=>"login", "user_password"=>"[FILTERED]",
>>      "user_noexpiry"=>"on", "login"=>"Sign in >>"}
>>      Redirected to http://localhost:3001/
>>      Completed in 246ms (DB: 1) | 302 Found [http://localhost/login]
>>
>>      Thanks,
>>      Matt
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>>    Tim,
>>    The Rails setting for this is "filter_parameter_logging
>>    :user_password" which sits near the top of
>>    app/controllers/login_controller.rb in my setup (2.1 devel as of
>>    9/28/2011).  It replaces the cleartext 'user_password' with [FILTERED] in
>>    the logs as Matt showed.  I see exactly the same thing as Matt.
>>    Are you using the standard login scheme, or is this with the API or
>>    OpenId?
>>    Best
>>     Christian
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> I forgot to reply-all to Matt's response, this is what I wrote:
>
> It concerns the `password' and `password_confirmation' parameter for the
> creation of a new user. So, when adding a new user to the system the
> password is logged, twice, in plaintext.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Tim.
>
> -- production.log --
>
> Processing UsersController#create (for ::ffff:93.163.59.75 at 2012-01-10
> 17:27:48) [POST]
>  Parameters:
>  {"authenticity_token"=>"DnWXcCMu4VI31dKBMQNRDH9ploEni/G9TUvTfXFRqco=",
>      "user"=>{"open_id_url"=>"",
>          "password_confirmation"=>"test123",
>          "auth_type"=>"database",
>          "password"=>"test123",
>          "login"=>"test"
>      }
>  }
>

I've pushed a fix for this to master.

Thanks for reporting it.

Matt
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