[Suggestion] Other way to store password
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Description
Reason:
AD passwords are stored in the database encrypted by Nextcloud secret. This is very insecure because if your service is compromised then our AD passwords will also be exposed.
Alternative/Example:
Wildduck Webmail uses Authelia/HAproxy to authenticate users from AD and supplies authenticated users' usernames via HTTP Remote-User header to Wildduck API. Webmail and API talk to each other by shared secrets. Therefore, users are provisioned into Wildduck backend without passwords.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by tracing how AD passwords are currently stored and used, then compare the proposed remote-user/header and shared-secret flow; completion would require an agreed implementation scope and acceptance criteria for passwordless provisioning.
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Assessment
- Domain
- authentication, backend, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100