Re: About Webmin Server

[Daniele G. <dgi...@sy...>]

Well, you may store as for webmin user password that are encrypted in
/miniserv.users
Also we may apply MD5 format.
Thanks for kindly collaboration!

Daniele



Jamie Cameron wrote:

> Daniele Gianetti wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> > I'm searching about connections between Webmin servers: I have
> > registered a new
> > server and set "Login via Webmin with username" adding user and
> > password.
> > Problem is that user and password are saved no encrypted on the file
> > "etc/servers/1012381728.serv"
> > and this of course is a security problem: how can I avoid the password
> > to be written
> > not encrypted ?
> > One more information: I have set to use SSL.
> > Thanks in advance!
>
> There isn't really any way to avoid storing the password, as it needs
> to be sent in plain-text to the remote webmin server. Even if it was
> encrypted, the decryption key would have to be somewhere and so there
> wouldn't be any real gain in security .. One way encryption (of the
> kind used in /etc/shadow) is not possible.
>
>  - Jamie
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