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Pid,
On 9/2/2010 11:51 AM, Pid wrote:
>> On 9/2/2010 11:28 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
>>> 1. Use a password entered on the console during start-up (the "Apache
>>> httpd strategy")
>
> java.io.Console makes this easy in Java 6, but...
Right: before Java 6, you'd have to enter the password clear-text on the
console. :(
>>> All other strategies simply move the problem to some other component.
>>> Protecting one password requires another password which requires
>>> protecting which ... you get the idea.
>
> ..lots of info is available by JMX, once the server is up. In Java 6
> you can attach to the process locally, without having to configure the
> JMX ports because it injects the management agent into the virtual machine.
I hadn't considered that, never having used JMX. Are you saying that
anyone with local access can snoop a JVM? What are the strategies
available to prohibit that? Can you disable local JMX altogether? How
about some kind of authentication?
> Worse, if they're already on your server they've probably got a much
> bigger surface area to attack, than just Tomcat. And if they get root,
> it's all over.
+1
- -chris
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