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  • Committer: Patch Queue Manager
  • Date: 2012-07-28 15:55:41 UTC
  • mfrom: (5912.5.9 Base64CredentialStore)
  • Revision ID: pqm@pqm.ubuntu.com-20120728155541-d860rcyc2q82nhnj
(gz) Add Base64CredentialStore for authentication.conf password obfuscation
 (Martin Packman)

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Encoding passwords in ``base64``, while weak, provides protection against
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accidental reading (if an administrator have to look into the file, he will not
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see the passwords in clear).(Not implemented yet).
 
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see the passwords in clear).
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This specification intends to ease the authentication providing, not to secure
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it in the best possible way.
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        scheme=https
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        host=home.net
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        user=joe
 
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        # Obtain the base64 encoded password by running 'echo -n "secret-pass" | base64'
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        password='c2VjcmV0LXBhc3M='
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        password_encoding=base64
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        verify_certificates=no # Still searching a free certificate provider