[arm-allstar] Password in iax.conf

[Bryan St Clair]

iax.conf us the only spot you needed to match up to the password found in
the portal for your node.

Using the same one across the board is just bad security practice, but no
rule against it.

The other spots you change in config area is not the same purpose as
registration.

Why make it simple matching password? It's a password you should only use
and set once.  The most complex and secure the better.


On Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 13:58 "Orrin Winton via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> The following came up in a discussion (not on this list) and i want to run
> it by y'all.
>
> If i go to allstarlink.org, then click on => Portal => Node Settings. For
> each of my nodes, there is a password. I changed the passwords to something
> simpler than the long passwords they provide. In other words, all three of
> my nodes have the same password because i made it so.
>
> Is that OK? One helpful friend say it is a possible source of connection
> problems.
>
> Then i went  into /etc/asterisk/ and nano iax.conf. This is hamvoip.
>
> One line reads:  register => 12345:Blahblah00 at register.allstarlink.org
>
> ... where 12345 is my node number, and Blahblah00 is my node password from
> the allstarlink.org site. (Real passwd is not that.) Then there is a
> stanza
> that looks like this, and my node# and password goes in it:
>
> [radio-proxy-out]
> type=peer
> host=
> ; add your node number as username
> username=12345
> ; add your node password as secret
> secret=Blahblah00
> auth=md5
>
> Then further down is a stanza, with my info:
>
> ; Example for Android/Iphone Zoiper/IAXRPT phone connections
> ; Commented lines below must be configured to your settings
> ; See the iax-rpt or zioper howto at hamvoip.org
>
> [wn1z]   ; The stanza is the Username from the phone app
> type=friend
> context=phone-iaxrpt
> host=dynamic
> auth=md5
> secret=Blahblah00   ; PASSWORD
> disallow=all
> allow=ulaw
>
>
>
> So, is it okay to change the Password like this? I am able to be connected
> to the Allstar system for hours at a time, maybe days, so i suspect it's
> okay. But i want to eliminate this as a config problem. ... (I know the PIN
> is unchangeable; i use that for Telephone Portal access, but that is a
> different subject.)Thanks for comments.
>
> 73 de wn1z
> Orrin
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