Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation

[Julian Hein]

Am 17.06.09 11:09 schrieb "Andreas Ericsson" unter <ae at op5.se>:

> edward baddouh wrote:
>> Yes, I want the configuration files to be worse (readable).
>> The idea is to difficult as-much-as-possible config-files theft from ohter
>> people who admin that server..
>> 
>> There have been times that configuration files were implemented on different
>> installations (different sites) with minor changes without the admin's
>> consent..
>> 
>> I don't want nobody to get credits for work I've done and receive no profit
>> at all..
>> 
> 
> This is just stupid imo and would be far better solved with some social
> conventions. The problem is that there's a limited way of configuring
> Nagios for a particular setup, so it's always entirely possible that
> whoever you *think* is "stealing" configuration from you has actually
> read the nagios docs for 15-30 minutes and then figured out how to do
> it themselves. It's not exactly rocket science, and a nagios config
> isn't a super-fast cryptographically secure hash algorithm that you
> (sometimes) need to jealously protect. The fact that you're trying
> makes me feel dirty all over, to be honest.
> 
> Why you want an opensource community help you *not* share your work,
> I really do not fathom, but you'll get absolutely no help from me.

And it would not work, because the config always gets de-obfuscated in the
objects cache and is visible in the Webinterface with "view config"

Makes no sense to me as well.

Julian


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