OpenSSLPasswordHelpers

The department is: OpenSSLPasswordHelpers

The full name of the cop is: Chef/Correctness/OpenSSLPasswordHelpers

Enabled by default	Supports autocorrection	Target Chef Version
Enabled	No	All Versions

The OpenSSL cookbook provides a deprecated secure_password helper in the Opscode::OpenSSL::Password class, which should no longer be used. This helper would generate a random password that would be used when a data bag or attribute was no present. The practice of generating passwords to be stored on the node is bad security as it exposes the password to anyone that can view the nodes, and deleting a node deletes the password. Passwords should be retrieved from a secure source for use in cookbooks.

incorrect

::Chef::Recipe.send(:include, Opscode::OpenSSL::Password) basic_auth_password = secure_password

Examples

Configurable attributes

Name	Default value	Configurable values
Version Added	6.6.0	String
Include		Array