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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:30:28 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Ashish Jain (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (GERONIMO-4896) Commands to a Secure JMX
 Connector require the SSL keyStorePassword to be specified on command line
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Ashish Jain commented on GERONIMO-4896:
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Hi Shawn,

Thanks for your comments. I will modify the patch as suggested by you. On the default KEYSTORE_TRUSTSTORE_PASSWORD_FILE GERONIMO-5146 takes care of that. I will
further make one more addition through which the default password are picked automatically by the server w/o any need for user to specify any parameter.  User will only have to
specify the system properties if he is using custom keystore, truststore.

Thanks
Ashish

> Commands to a Secure JMX Connector require the SSL keyStorePassword to be specified on command line
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: GERONIMO-4896
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-4896
>             Project: Geronimo
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.5, 2.2, 3.0
>            Reporter: Kevan Miller
>            Assignee: Shawn Jiang
>             Fix For: 2.1.5, 3.0, Wish List
>
>         Attachments: 4896.patch, 4896_updated.patch, 4896_updated_21.patch, JavaAgent.jar, JvmOpts.java
>
>
> To my knowledge, it is not possible to run a Geronimo command (e.g. deploy.sh deploy or gsh geronimo/stop-server) to a server with a secure JMX Connector (running SSL, without specifying the following Java system properties on the command line:
>    javax.net.ssl.keyStore and javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword
> For example:
> {code}
> export GERONIMO_HOME=~/target/geronimo-jetty6-javaee5-2.2-SNAPSHOT
> export JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=$GERONIMO_HOME/var/security/keystores/geronimo-default -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=secret -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=$GERONIMO_HOME/var/security/keystores/geronimo-default -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=secret"
> $GERONIMO_HOME/bin/deploy.sh -u system -p manager --secure list-modules --stopped
> {code}
> javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword causes a problem, since this means the keyStorePassword is available, in-the-clear, to someone inspecting executing processes. For example while a deploy command was active, someone could run 'ps auxww | grep deployer.jar' and discover the keyStorePassword for the KeyStore.
> Geronimo should provide a mechanism, whereby users can specify the keyStorePassword without making that secret available to anyone inspecting processes running on the current system. Ideally, the password could be encrypted/obfuscated within a file (just as passwords can be encrypted/obfuscated in var/config/config.xml).

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