question Can the Ranger LDAP bind password be encrypted? It is stored in plain text in Ambari. in Archives of Support Questions (Read Only) https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100461#M13329 Tue, 22 Dec 2015 23:58:43 GMT TerryP 2015-12-22T23:58:43Z Can the Ranger LDAP bind password be encrypted? It is stored in plain text in Ambari. https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100461#M13329 Tue, 22 Dec 2015 23:58:43 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100461#M13329 TerryP 2015-12-22T23:58:43Z Re: Can the Ranger LDAP bind password be encrypted? It is stored in plain text in Ambari. https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100462#M13330 <P>what version of Ambari is being used? This looks like a bug. All passwords should be encrypted in the xml config file(s).</P> Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:09:16 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100462#M13330 sneethiraj 2015-12-23T00:09:16Z Re: Can the Ranger LDAP bind password be encrypted? It is stored in plain text in Ambari. https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100463#M13331 <P>Ambari 2.1.2.1. You can see the password in clear text on the Ranger LDAP setup page.</P> Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:43:10 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100463#M13331 TerryP 2015-12-23T00:43:10Z Re: Can the Ranger LDAP bind password be encrypted? It is stored in plain text in Ambari. https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100464#M13332 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/369/amcbarnett.html" nodeid="369">@Ancil McBarnett</A> </P> Thu, 24 Dec 2015 22:14:03 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100464#M13332 aervits 2015-12-24T22:14:03Z Re: Can the Ranger LDAP bind password be encrypted? It is stored in plain text in Ambari. https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100465#M13333 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/38/terry.html" nodeid="38" target="_blank">@terry </A>Before Ambari 2.1.2, in order to have Ranger admin UI do authenticated binds to find role information we use to set these two properties as custom properties. </P> <PRE>ranger.ldap.bind.dn ranger.ldap.bind.password </PRE><P>Because of this the value of ranger.ldap.bind.password was always displayed in cleartext. </P><P>This was fix in Ambari 2.1.2 where the the ranger.ldap.bind.password is specified as a password field so the value is obscured. The relevant JIRA was <A target="_blank" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-12896" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">AMBARI-12896</A></P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="1192-screen-shot-2016-01-04-at-74711-pm.png" style="width: 770px;"><img src="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/23805i6A219F3F6383A6D5/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="1192-screen-shot-2016-01-04-at-74711-pm.png" alt="1192-screen-shot-2016-01-04-at-74711-pm.png" /></span></P><P> If you were referring to the the Ranger Usersync LDAP bind password that was only fixed in <STRONG>Ambari 2.2</STRONG></P><P>Please double check which version of Ambari you are using.</P> Mon, 19 Aug 2019 12:27:40 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100465#M13333 amcbarnett 2019-08-19T12:27:40Z Re: Can the Ranger LDAP bind password be encrypted? It is stored in plain text in Ambari. https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100466#M13334 <P>This was the Usersync LDAP bind password block <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/369/amcbarnett.html" nodeid="369">@Ancil McBarnett</A> and the Ambari version is 2.1.2.1. All the other passwords are hidden.</P> Tue, 05 Jan 2016 23:39:24 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100466#M13334 TerryP 2016-01-05T23:39:24Z Re: Can the Ranger LDAP bind password be encrypted? It is stored in plain text in Ambari. https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100467#M13335 <P>Just one question.</P><P>AMBARI-12896 won't encrypt/obfscate password stored in ranger's xml file, will it?</P> Fri, 13 Jan 2017 08:59:02 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-the-Ranger-LDAP-bind-password-be-encrypted-It-is-stored/m-p/100467#M13335 hosako 2017-01-13T08:59:02Z