[Engine-devel] Dropping encryption of database password

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eli Mesika" <emesika at redhat.com>
> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>, "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>, "Juan Hernandez"
> <jhernand at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 3:45:06 AM
> Subject: Re: Dropping encryption of database password
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> > To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> > Cc: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>, "Eli Mesika"
> > <emesika at redhat.com>, "Juan Hernandez" <jhernand at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:41:20 PM
> > Subject: Dropping encryption of database password
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Currently we store database password encrypted using
> > org.picketbox.datasource.security.SecureIdentityLoginModule.
> > 
> > This is reverse encryption with common knowledge shared secret.
> > 
> > Using encryption with common knowledge shared secret is close to void
> > protection.
> > 
> > So far we also stored the password as plain text at
> > /etc/ovirt-engine/.pgpass, this is going to be removed as no component
> > actually uses the .pgpass, however we do need to store non-java specific
> > password in for utilities.
> > 
> > In master (aiming to 3.3), we store the database connection details in own
> > file /etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/50-setup-database.conf owned by ovirt
> > user and not world readable.
> > 
> > I would like to use the same 50-setup-database.conf to store plain text
> > password and remove the java specific reversible encrypted password usage.
> > 
> > Bottom line...
> > 1. We drop the .pgpass file.
> > 2. We store database connection information in
> > /etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/<file> that is readable only by ovirt
> > usage.
> > 3. We drop the java specific reversible encryption in favor of plain text.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> I see no problem in the .pgpass , only root can access it (it has 0600 mode ,
> if it doesn't it is ignored by PG)
> Apart from that , this is the standard way used by PG so why not using it ,
> AFAIK this is considered safe & secured

In another words you are for storing password as plain text.... :)

> 
> 
> > Alon
> > 
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