[TYPO3-english] Salted hashes and security

Philipp Gampe typo3.lists at philippgampe.info
Fri Dec 16 12:56:18 CET 2011


Hi Victor,

Victor Livakovsky wrote:

> Hi, Markus.
> 
>> What is the exact message shown by the report?
> 
> The message is shown in "Security" section:
> "Backend user password hashes" - "Insecure"
> During the configuration check of saltedpasswords the following issues
> have been found:
> 
> Warnings about your configuration
> SaltedPasswords might behave different than expected:
> 
>     The backend is configured to use SaltedPasswords with RSA
> authentication.
> 
>     SaltedPasswords has been configured to enforce salted passwords
> (forceSalted).
>     This means that only passwords in the format of this extension will
> succeed for login.
>     IMPORTANT: This has the effect that passwords that are set from the
> Install Tool will not work!
> 
> 
> Note, that a wrong configuration might have impact on the security of your
> TYPO3 installation and the usability of the backend.

Yes, this message is partly wrong.

Can you open an issue on 
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v4-core/issues

Best regards
-- 
Philipp Gampe


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