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John Vines commented on ACCUMULO-1720:
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It's still protected by file system permissions of the ZooKeeper users, so I
don't see it as a giant concern, WRT making a private ticket. If a user has
access to the disk image of ZooKeeper's data, then yes, it is an insecurity in
spite of it being ACLed by ZooKeeper, as well as anyone listening to the
connection between Accumulo and ZK ( can be mitigated with Kerberozied
ZooKeeper).
> Accumulo saves the root user's password in the clear in Zookeeper
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> Key: ACCUMULO-1720
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1720
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: tserver
> Affects Versions: 1.5.0
> Reporter: Michael Allen
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> In reviewing some of the security around users, it came to my attention that
> Accumulo stores the root user's password within Zookeeper in the clear.
> Grepping through Zookeeper's data files proves this out (as does inspecting
> the code).
> This passwords should be stored heavily salted and hashed, as the other user
> passwords are. Is there any reason why it isn't?
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