On 15/09/10 12:44 +0200, Tobias Paepke wrote:
>  Am 15.09.10 12:32, schrieb Cédric Krier:
> > On 15/09/10 12:29 +0200, Tobias Paepke wrote:
> >>  Am 15.09.10 12:24, schrieb Cédric Krier:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> One of biggest security issue in default trytond installation is the
> >>> admin_password that is in clear text in trytond.conf.
> >>>
> >>> This is a legacy from OpenERP to allow newbie users to setup a database 
> >>> from
> >>> the client easily.
> >>>
> >>> I propose to change the cleared hardcoded password with a validation of 
> >>> the
> >>> password of the user running trytond.
> >>>
> >>> What do you think?
> >>>
> >> what about a hashed password in config?
> > It is hard to create/update.
> It is anyway on windows. For example you have to define the password for
> the user which is running tryton-service in the service management. If
> you change that password, it will stop working.

Why?

> Maybe i'm missing something.
> I know, tryton does not run on windows as a service yet...
> >> I don't think that a system user should have a password at all.
> > This will mean database creation is forbidden from rpc as for any production
> > server.
> >
> don't understand.

If there is no password set for the running user then it is not allowed to
create/drop database from client.
This behavior is the best for a production environment.

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Cédric Krier

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