Plaintext or prehashed passwords
You can store passwords in clear text or as a hash. Storing passwords as hashes is safer. Text or hash passwords are controlled by the opensipsctlrc
and opensips.cfg
files. The opensipsctlrc
file controls the opensipsctl
and osipsconsole
utilities. It will store the password in plaintext in the password column if the STORE_PLAINTEXT_PW
parameter is set to 1
or the HA1 value in the ha1
column is set to 0
(HA1 is a hash, the MD5 computation of user
, realm
, and password
). The calculate_ha1
parameter defines whether MD5 will be computed on the fly or not. When set to 1
, it tells the server to use the plaintext passwords from the password column and calculate HA1 on the fly. On the other hand, if set to 0
, it tells ...
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