On 02/25/2010 07:36 PM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi Alaina, > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Alaina<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I was wondering how the standard authentication handles user >> passwords. Especially I would like to know whether those passwords get >> sent from the client to the server in plaintext or whether they get >> encrypted. >> >> Or in other words is it safe to use a non-encrypted http connection or >> should I use to a SSL https connection to prevent password sniffing. >> > > I think HTTPS is safer. Passwords are stored encrypted on the DB but AFAIK > if you're using HTTP they're going to be sent plaintext to the wiki, thus > allowing for sniffing during the transfer. I might be wrong though ;-)
Guillaume is correct, but this applies only to the default cookie-based authentication. > HTTPS is safer as a general rule anyway. To reduce the need for encryption, you can just setup the httpd frontend to automatically redirect from HTTP to HTTPS for login URLs, and back to HTTP for all the other URLs. > Guillaume -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
