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Spencer T Brody  
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 More options May 21 2012, 4:52 pm
From: Spencer T Brody <spen...@10gen.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 13:52:04 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, May 21 2012 4:52 pm
Subject: Re: Backup with mongodump protecting the credentials
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There is nothing like this built into MongoDB at this time.  You could
create a file with the username and password and encrypt it and have your
backup script decrypt the file and pass the results into mongodump, but
that still requires the backup script to have the password to decrypt the
file with the mongo credentials.  If you're worried about someone being
able to change the data if they get access to the credentials used by the
backup process, you could create a read-only user and use that for backups
instead.

On Monday, May 21, 2012 11:35:07 AM UTC-4, KCOtzen wrote:

> Security is very important in production deployment, so i was
> wondering if is there some option in mongodump for protecting the
> credentials?

> For instance, this is a normal use of mongodump:

> ./mongodump --host dbh46.excelsys.com --db mydb --collection user -u
> userbank -p secretpass

> In this case we expose username and password, that's not good.

> Is there something like this?--->http://blog.gazzang.com/blog/bid/
> 87472/Running-a-Secure-Encrypted-MySQL-Backup-Using-mysqldump-on-Linux<http://blog.gazzang.com/blog/bid/87472/Running-a-Secure-Encrypted-MyS...>

> where the credentials are encrypted and a file is used as follow:

> mysqldump –defaults-extra-file=/home/mfrank/protectedlogin.cnf –all-
> databases

> I would like to schedule the backups, so it's important to us protect
> the credentials.

> Thanks


 
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