On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 08:46:58AM +0100, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> I???m working for a UK high street bank and our
Kamailio implementation has been challenged because we???ve got database passwords held in
clear in the configuration file.
...
My requirement
is simple, I need to be able to supply a password via means such as loading a variable
from a run-once script at start up, or a module. The ideal would be to be able to read in
a Docker secret :)
you can define a for a token to be used inside kamailio.cfg by using -A
command line parameter. So when you start kamailio, fetch the password
from your secure system by what so ever meaning, then build the database
url based on it and run kamailio with:
kamailio - A DBURL='mysql://user:passwd@dbhost/kamailio' ...
My guess is the next problem will be the password being visible to all
users querying the processlist :)
Is including a file (import_file) with passwords an option? Generate the
file just before startup, remove it (ofcourse in a secure way (shred the
file and overwrite all freespace with a multiple patters a few dozen
times (ask the auditors for the exact specifications that make them
happy))) after kamailio is running.