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Tiago L. Alves updated CASSANDRA-20648:
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Component/s: Tool/cqlsh
> Improves check for sensitive credentials in cqlsh config
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> Key: CASSANDRA-20648
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-20648
> Project: Apache Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Tool/cqlsh
> Reporter: Tiago L. Alves
> Priority: Normal
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> In CASSANDRA-16456 plugin support was added for cqlsh. In this
> implementation, a check was added to verify if the config file where we have
> stored the password for plain-text authentication is secure. A warning is
> printed if the config file is owned or readable by others in the system. See
> [https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/d4fb51347ca44386a0307bbfe1860d7ef16859e5/pylib/cqlshlib/authproviderhandling.py#L34]
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> This verification addresses only the scenario where the auth provider is the
> PlainTextAuthProvider. However, if anyone implements it's own provider
> storing sensitive credentials in the config, this check would not warn the
> user of it.
> One way to improve this checks would be to check for known keys used to store
> credentials (e.g. `password`, `secret`, `basicauth`).
> Another way, would be to provide a method that could be overwritten by
> plugins with the keys used for sensitive keywords, and use it.
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