Strongly agree that this can greatly reduce the security risk of APISIX.

> please use a custom token in the generation environment and
write into the configuration file.

Do we need to provide this function to help users do it?

Ming Wen <wenm...@apache.org> 于2022年1月25日周二 16:28写道:

> hello,
>     Apache APISIX has the fixed token of admin API in the configuration
> file[1].
>     While we strongly recommend that users change this token, this is a
> security risk anyway. We should use a more elegant solution to actively
> solve this problem.
>
>     My solution is:
>     1. Remove these fixed tokens and change the default value to empty
>     2. When Apache APISIX starts, if the token is found to be empty, it
> will automatically generate a random token, and print the hint information
> on the screen and in the log: random token is only applicable to the test
> environment, please use a custom token in the generation environment and
> write into the configuration file.
>     3. The admin API does not accept the empty token.
>
>     In this way, it will not affect the previous version, nor will it
> affect the developer's experience of Apache APISIX, and enhance the
> security.
>
>     What do you think?
>
>
> [1]
>
> https://github.com/apache/apisix/blob/master/conf/config-default.yaml#L87-L100
>
> Thanks,
> Ming Wen, Apache APISIX PMC Chair
> Twitter: _WenMing
>

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