[Spce-user] Hide customer password in Kamailio DB

Marc Storck mstorck at voipgate.com
Thu Apr 30 07:57:35 EDT 2015


What is the difference from reading the plain text (unencrypted) password or reading the plain text (unencrypted) HA1 and HA1_2 values from DB?

AFAIK, an attacker, who was able to read either of them from your DB, can use those values to correctly authenticate to the SPCE in any case.

> On 30 Apr 2015, at 13:45, Mathys Frédéric <frederic.mathys at nagra.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> When creating a new user, by default the password is saved in plaintext in the DB, column “password”. For obvious security reasons, I’d like to remove the password in this column and use only ha1 and ha1b values. To do that, I modified the “auth_db” module configuration :
> 
> /etc/kamailio/proxy/kamailio.cfg
> modparam("auth_db", "use_domain", 1)
> modparam("auth_db", "calculate_ha1", 0)
> modparam("auth_db", "password_column", "ha1")
> modparam("auth_db", "password_column_2", "ha1_2")
> 
> Then, I removed the password for all users in the DB, and everyone seems able to connect with this configuration. My problem is now when I create a new user, the password is automatically saved in plaintext and I don’t want that. So I tried to modify “kamctlrc” by adding the following line :
> 
> /etc/kamailio/proxy/kamctlrc and /etc/kamailio/lb/kamctlrc
> STORE_PLAINTEXT_PW=0
> 
> This has no effect, what should I do to disable that?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Frederic Mathys
> System Integration & Validation Engineer
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