Bug 1503872 - [Docs][RFE][Admin] Document the ability to enter encrypted passwords with the --password option
Summary: [Docs][RFE][Admin] Document the ability to enter encrypted passwords with the...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1486740
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Documentation
Version: 4.2.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Emma Heftman
QA Contact: Avital Pinnick
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Whiteboard: docs-accepted
Depends On: 1389673
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-10-19 01:10 UTC by Byron Gravenorst
Modified: 2019-05-07 12:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-04-13 01:47:57 UTC
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Description Byron Gravenorst 2017-10-19 01:10:35 UTC
This update enables administrators to use the new --encrypted option to enter an already encrypted password when invoking 'ovirt-aaa-jdbc-tool user password-reset'.

However, there are some caveats when providing encrypted passwords:

1. Entering an encrypted password means that password validity tests cannot be performed, so they are skipped and the password is accepted even if it does not comply with the password validation policy.

2. A password has to be encrypted using the same configured algorithm. To encrypt passwords, administrators can use the '/usr/share/ovirt-engine/bin/ovirt-engine-crypto-tool.sh' tool, which provides the 'pbe-encode' command to encrypt passwords using the default PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1 algorithm.

Comment 1 Lucy Bopf 2018-02-15 03:45:35 UTC
Accepting into Beta 3 program and assigning to Emma for review.

Comment 3 Lucy Bopf 2018-04-13 01:47:57 UTC
Thanks for the comment, Avital. I didn't see this one until now.

It looks like this feature has already been documented for 4.2 as part of bug 1486740, which covered 4.1 as well:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.2-beta/html-single/administration_guide/#pre_encrypting_a_user_password

Therefore, I am closing this BZ.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1486740 ***


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