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RicochetPeter



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:40 am    Post subject: RMA password in clear text Reply with quote

Hi KS-Soft,

I see that the windows RMA hides its password in two lines of text which are somewhat cryptic, whereas the Linux RMA uses the password in clear text. This looks like a little security hole to me. Is it possible to have it in a similar form as in the Windows RMA?
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KS-Soft Europe



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:51 am    Post subject: Re: RMA password in clear text Reply with quote

RicochetPeter wrote:
This looks like a little security hole to me.

I do not think so. All traffic between RMA and HostMonitor or RMA and RMA Manager is encrypted using MD5 + Twofish encryption and the password itself is never transmitted through the network without encryption.

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Max
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RicochetPeter



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Having it in the config file (rma.ini) in clear text is what I would like to prevent...
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KS-Soft



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Probably we will change that in the future.
On the other hand
1) if somebody has access to your system, he can make a lot of problems without knowing this password
2) You may restrict access to this file

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Alex
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RicochetPeter



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thx
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