Re: S3 Object Storage - secret key handling

2013-07-08 Thread John Burwell
Min, +1. In my opinion, masking the secret key will only make debugging and diagnostics more difficult. From a security perspective, CloudStack administrators/operators should be creating a dedicated CloudStack access key/secret key with a read/write ACL only for the bucket used by the system

Re: S3 Object Storage - secret key handling

2013-07-03 Thread Tom O'Dowd
Hi Min, I'm not familiar with all the use cases of Cloudstack so let me just ask anyway... If you create another user as an admin can that user see the S3 secret key? Is there is any use case where another admin should not see the secret key then I think we should hide it. If not, then I guess its

Re: S3 Object Storage - secret key handling

2013-07-03 Thread Min Chen
Tom, on second thought, I don't think that this is an issue at all. This Infrastructure page UI is only available to cloud admin, who is the person who set up S3 secondary storage, so he/she already knows S3 secret key. Hiding or not hiding it will make no difference. This UI will not be visible to

Re: S3 Object Storage - secret key handling

2013-07-03 Thread Min Chen
Thanks Tom for reporting this. Jessica, can you take a look at this bug to hide it from UI, in the similar manner as we handle password field? -min On 7/2/13 11:51 PM, "Thomas O'Dowd" wrote: >Hi guys, > >I created a bug regarding the handling of the S3 secret key information. >My opinion is tha

S3 Object Storage - secret key handling

2013-07-02 Thread Thomas O'Dowd
Hi guys, I created a bug regarding the handling of the S3 secret key information. My opinion is that it should be treated more carefully like a password and not displayed in the UI at least. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-3342 Tom. -- Cloudian KK - http://www.cloudian.com/