Hi Elvis, Yes I know. But in this case I did not know the password. Maybe that is an anomaly but we see it now and then, usually when there are more than one party "sharing" a maintainer. One could argue that if you hire external people to maintain your RIPE data you should add their maintainer but that means a whole lot of updating. It is much easier to add an extra auth line to the current maintainer. Cheers, Daniel On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Elvis Daniel Velea wrote:
Hi Daniel,
if you know the password or authenticate with the SSO, you can find the full object in webupdates: https://apps.db.ripe.net/webupdates/enter-password.html
cheers, elvis
On 20/08/15 14:43, Daniel Stolpe wrote:
I just had a very specific experience but this is a general problem.
What I wanted to do was update a maintainer object in the database. No problems since I was authorized via a PGP key. The problem was that one of the lines looked like:
auth: MD5-PW # Filtered
And although I have no personal use for the md5 hash I did not want to disturb users who might have. I asked the NCC for advice and the answers were like "if you have an access account" (yes) you can add a line "auth: SSO xxxx@xxxx.xx" (yes). Still not a solution to my problem since adding the SSO line would just break the md5 anyway.
The solution this time was that I eventually found a local copy of the object with the md5 hash unfiltered.
I know the md5 hashes are a security problem and I do not recommend anyone using them but as long as they are there the filtering causes trouble. And by the way, we now see a lot of
auth: SSO # Filtered
What I am looking for is a way to retrieve the whole unfiltered object for anyone authorized, or, at least, a possibility to updated the object without touching the filtered lines.
Maybe you could send a PGP signed request, not for updating but just for viewing the complete object?
Best Regards,
Daniel Stolpe
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