Hi Andreas

This should  possible with only changes in VFS transport. But after 8
or 7 in this month , I will not available until 28th . I will move
document to some visible place.

Thanks
Inidka

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Andreas Veithen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree that it should be possible to use all Synapse features without
> having to store cleartext passwords in the config files (and without
> having them appear in log files).
>
> Just some random ideas about this topic:
>
> * Indika implemented a mechanism for exactly this, but for the moment
> this is limited to data sources. There is some documentation about
> this feature, but it is somewhat hidden in the Sample Setup guide. We
> should have this documentation in a more prominent place. Maybe as a
> subsection in the new Deployment guide?
>
> * As an alternative to usernames and passwords encoded in URLs,
> Commons VFS supports authentication by passing a
> org.apache.commons.vfs.UserAuthenticator object to the file system
> provider. Maybe we should define a property in the message context to
> allow to pass such an object to the transport. Alternatively we could
> write an adapter so that we can handle e.g. HTTPS and VFS
> authentication in the same way.
>
> * We should then have a mediator that builds the UserAuthenticator
> using the password encryption mechanisms implemented by Indika.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Andreas
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 00:34, Kim Horn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It may, we are given simple text passwords by systems we have to
>> interface too. FTP is still the largest B2B mechanism in the US :-). We
>> cannot ask them to supply us anything else but a simple
>> username/password; this is the reality of B2B.  The only issue we have
>> is that these are not kept in clear text in script files. In our domain
>> this is illegal and in all other domains bad practise.  So all we
>> require is to be able to have these encrypted in any script files. I
>> think this Jira suggests a stronger mechanism, sharing keys between SFTP
>> servers, but is totally impractical in real world B2B.
>>
>>
>> Kim
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Asankha Perera [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Asankha C. Perera
>> Sent: Thursday, 2 April 2009 3:48 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Can VFS SFTP Passwords be encrypted
>>
>> Hi Jay / Kim
>>> A suggestion.  SFTP can use PKI shared keys for authentication.  The
>> keys are host+user specific.
>>>
>>> I am not familiar enough with Synapse to know exactly how you'd go
>> about it, but I do suggest that the answer lies in using PKI.
>>>
>> I guess https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNAPSE-507 is a proper
>> solution for this.. and possibly we could already tweak VFS to do this..
>>
>> cheers
>> asankhaa
>>
>> --
>> Asankha C. Perera
>> AdroitLogic, http://adroitlogic.org
>>
>> http://esbmagic.blogspot.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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