Repository (In)Security
We were sitting here looking at some unencrypted network traffic and it hit me - our StHub, SqS, and ss3 credentials are always unencrypted. This is a tremendous security hole. Someone could grab the credentials of a more prominent member of the community who has admin rights to many repos and start uploading arbitrary Zip files with who-knows-what embedded. SSL certificates are so cheap today. Will ESUG purchase them for our community servers? I personally have deleted all my private repos, and moved them to BitBucket, which I can access via SSH, but it doesn't solve the problem because of course any open source St project I load will open the flood gates! ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Repository-In-Security-tp4845058.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Hi Sean, Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com> writes:
We were sitting here looking at some unencrypted network traffic and it hit me - our StHub, SqS, and ss3 credentials are always unencrypted. This is a tremendous security hole. Someone could grab the credentials of a more prominent member of the community who has admin rights to many repos and start uploading arbitrary Zip files with who-knows-what embedded.
SSL certificates are so cheap today. Will ESUG purchase them for our community servers?
I personally have deleted all my private repos, and moved them to BitBucket, which I can access via SSH, but it doesn't solve the problem because of course any open source St project I load will open the flood gates!
thank you for raising the issue. The ESUG board can pay such a certificate. Nonetheless, the problem is not paying but installing the certificate and maintaining the server. We already have too little time to dedicate to server maintenance. We are looking for volunteers. -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
I'll volunteer if someone cab give me an overview of how things are set up. I enjoy a little bit of server maintenance from time to time. On 26 August 2015 09:28:42 CEST, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou@inria.fr> wrote:
Hi Sean,
Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com> writes:
We were sitting here looking at some unencrypted network traffic and it hit me - our StHub, SqS, and ss3 credentials are always unencrypted. This is a tremendous security hole. Someone could grab the credentials of a more prominent member of the community who has admin rights to many repos and start uploading arbitrary Zip files with who-knows-what embedded.
SSL certificates are so cheap today. Will ESUG purchase them for our community servers?
I personally have deleted all my private repos, and moved them to BitBucket, which I can access via SSH, but it doesn't solve the problem because of course any open source St project I load will open the flood gates!
thank you for raising the issue.
The ESUG board can pay such a certificate. Nonetheless, the problem is not paying but installing the certificate and maintaining the server. We already have too little time to dedicate to server maintenance.
We are looking for volunteers.
-- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
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Steven R. Baker <steven@stevenrbaker.com> writes:
I'll volunteer if someone cab give me an overview of how things are set up. I enjoy a little bit of server maintenance from time to time.
those interested should contact "Marcus Denker" <marcus.denker@inria.fr> to build a maintainer team. -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
Damien Cassou-2 wrote
those interested should contact "Marcus Denker" to build a maintainer team.
I will help, too. I will contact Marcus… ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Repository-In-Security-tp4845058p4846625.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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