[keycloak-user] Securely setting admin passwords

[Stan Silvert]

On 2/18/2016 2:15 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
>
>
> On 17 February 2016 at 17:09, Aikeaguinea <aikeaguinea at xsmail.com 
> <mailto:aikeaguinea at 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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