class RuboCop::Cop::Chef::Correctness::OpenSSLPasswordHelpers
The OpenSSL cookbook provides a deprecated `secure_password` helper in the `Opscode::OpenSSL::Password` class, which should no longer be used. This helper would generate a random password that would be used when a data bag or attribute was no present. The practice of generating passwords to be stored on the node is bad security as it exposes the password to anyone that can view the nodes, and deleting a node deletes the password. Passwords should be retrieved from a secure source for use in cookbooks.
#### incorrect ::Chef::Recipe.send(:include, Opscode::OpenSSL::Password) basic_auth_password = secure_password
Constants
- MSG
Public Instance Methods
on_const(node)
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# File lib/rubocop/cop/chef/correctness/openssl_password_helpers.rb, line 37 def on_const(node) openssl_helper?(node) do add_offense(node, message: MSG, severity: :warning) end end