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[Vladimir Kozhukalov <vkozhukalov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you, Bogdan.

Is "password sanity checks" built-in feature in Elasticsearch? I've not
managed to find anything about this feature. What exactly do you mean
taking about "password sanity checks"? How can index help if the password
looks like "admin" or something like this?



On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Bogdan Dobrelya <bdobrelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  On 11/19/2013 12:18 PM, Vladimir Kozhukalov wrote:
>
> The issue is that when we make diagnostic snapshot we get files as they
> are. Those files like /etc/astute.yaml contain plain text passwords which
> are strongly desirable  to be filtered out from wherever they appear.
>
>  There are two major approaches here.
>
>  First is to use bare filtering such as sed. We have set of passwords
> taken from database and we can find those pieces of plain text throughout
> snapshot files and substitute them with something. The problem here is that
> passwords can look like "1" or "admin", so we are enforced to filter out
> all such occurrences. To avoid this problem we need to check passwords for
> their strength. Strong passwords like "Ainei0oh" can be found and
> substituted being sure that they are actual passwords and not meaningful
> strings.
>
>  Second, you have data about where and how passwords appear. Those data
> are something like set of regular expressions /(foo:\s+)(PASSWORD)(bar)$/
> with file names. The problem here is that we need somehow to gather those
> data and they eventually could turn out to be invalid so we are likely to
> skip one of the occurrences.
>
>  Let's have a discussion about it and make a decision.
>
>  --
> Vladimir Kozhukalov
>
>
>  I believe we should consider all configuration files in snapshot as
> documents and use any document based indexing systems, f.e. Elasticsearch,
> to index it for every word inside, and to run *password sanity checks*against it. If none matches was found for password given, we consider it
> OK, otherwise, it have to be changed and verified again...
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Bogdan Dobrelya,
> Researcher TechLead, Mirantis, Inc.
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>
>


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Vladimir Kozhukalov