[v4,2/3] t/lib-httpd: stop using legacy crypt(3) for authentication

Commit Message

Patrick Steinhardt Nov. 10, 2023, 8:17 a.m. UTC

When setting up httpd for our tests, we also install a passwd and
proxy-passwd file that contain the test user's credentials. These
credentials currently use crypt(3) as the password encryption schema.

This schema can be considered deprecated nowadays as it is not safe
anymore. Quoting Apache httpd's documentation [1]:

> Unix only. Uses the traditional Unix crypt(3) function with a
> randomly-generated 32-bit salt (only 12 bits used) and the first 8
> characters of the password. Insecure.

This is starting to cause issues in modern Linux distributions. glibc
has deprecated its libcrypt library that used to provide crypt(3) in
favor of the libxcrypt library. This newer replacement provides a
compile time switch to disable insecure password encryption schemata,
which causes crypt(3) to always return `EINVAL`. The end result is that
httpd tests that exercise authentication will fail on distros that use
libxcrypt without these insecure encryption schematas.

Regenerate the passwd files to instead use the default password
encryption schema, which is md5. While it feels kind of funny that an
MD5-based encryption schema should be more secure than anything else, it
is the current default and supported by all platforms. Furthermore, it
really doesn't matter all that much given that these files are only used
for testing purposes anyway.

[1]: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/misc/password_encryptions.html

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <[e-mail]>
---
 t/lib-httpd/passwd       | 2 +-
 t/lib-httpd/proxy-passwd | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/t/lib-httpd/passwd b/t/lib-httpd/passwd
index 99a34d64874..d9c122f3482 100644
--- a/t/lib-httpd/passwd
+++ b/t/lib-httpd/passwd
@@ -1 +1 @@ 
-user@host:xb4E8pqD81KQs
+user@host:$apr1$LGPmCZWj$9vxEwj5Z5GzQLBMxp3mCx1
diff --git a/t/lib-httpd/proxy-passwd b/t/lib-httpd/proxy-passwd
index 77c25138e07..2ad7705d9a3 100644
--- a/t/lib-httpd/proxy-passwd
+++ b/t/lib-httpd/proxy-passwd
@@ -1 +1 @@ 
-proxuser:2x7tAukjAED5M
+proxuser:$apr1$RxS6MLkD$DYsqQdflheq4GPNxzJpx5.