[Asterisk-Users] no plain text passwords in iax.conf
Bastian Schern
ml01 at in-bln.de
Mon Nov 29 17:25:17 MST 2004
Adam Hart schrieb:
> Bastian Schern wrote:
>
>> Hello Asterisk friends,
>>
>> is it possible to avoid plain text passwords in the iax.conf or the
>> iaxfriends MySQL database table?
>>
>
> Asterisk needs the plain text password to authenicate. You could wrap a
> base64 decode when reading the passwords, but this is obsecurity, yet
> simple to implement & should prevent the casual browser. I guess a more
> secure method would public key crypto and give asterisk the key at
> runtime (obviously not 100% secure either)
I found out that MySQL offers some methods to store strong passwords:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+sip+mysql+peers
But how I use this with Asterisk?
Bastian
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