On 2/18/2016 2:15 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:

On 17 February 2016 at 17:09, Aikeaguinea <aikeaguinea@xsmail.com> wrote:

It seems the add-user.sh  script for changing the admin password only
accepts the password as a -p command-line parameter. This would expose
the password in the command history, so I'd prefer not to use the
command in its current form.

That's a mistake we'll fix that. If not specified it should prompt for it. Added https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-2501

After attending several security talks the last couple of days, I've become rather sensitized to this kind of issue.  I feel quite strongly that we should never allow the password to be written to history in plain text.   I'm also afraid it could cause us to flunk government certifications.

On Windows, this really isn't a problem because command history is not saved.  After a CMD session ends, the history is lost (unless you install some third-party tool).

Perhaps there is a way to temporarily disable logging of command history in the add-user-keycloak.sh?

 

Is there another way to do this?

The situation is even more complicated with Docker, since running the
script to change the Wildfly admin password requires restarting the
server, which shuts down the container. If you have an autoscaling
group, the container that gets brought up is not the container where you
changed the password, but instead the original container. This seems to
mean that the only way to have Keycloak run in Dockers in an autoscaling
group is to bake the admin passwords into the Docker image beforehand.
This isn't ideal; less so if the only way to add those passwords during
build time is to run the shell script that exposes the password on the
command line.

You need to set the password once for your database. This can be done prior to accessing the admin console the first time. Take a look at https://github.com/jboss-dockerfiles/keycloak/blob/master/server/README.md, you can use docker exec to do this.

 

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