rabbitmqctl ping only checks that the Erlang process is registered
with epmd. There’s a window after that where the rabbit app is still
starting inside it.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
The RabbitMQ docs state ([1]):
RabbitMQ nodes and CLI tools (e.g. rabbitmqctl) use a cookie to
determine whether they are allowed to communicate with each
other. [...] The cookie is just a string of alphanumeric
characters up to 255 characters in size. It is usually stored in a
local file.
...and goes on to state (emphasis ours):
If the file does not exist, Erlang VM will try to create one with
a randomly generated value when the RabbitMQ server starts
up. Using such generated cookie files are **appropriate in
development environments only.**
The auto-generated cookie does not use cryptographic sources of
randomness, and generates 20 characters of `[A-Z]`. Because of a
semi-predictable seed, the entropy of this password is thus less than
the idealized 26^20 = 94 bits of entropy; in actuality, it is 36 bits
of entropy, or potentially as low as 20 if the performance of the
server is known.
These sizes are well within the scope of remote brute-force attacks.
On provision, install, and upgrade, replace the default insecure
20-character Erlang cookie with a cryptographically secure
255-character string (the max length allowed).
[1] https://www.rabbitmq.com/clustering.html#erlang-cookie
This reverts commit 889547ff5e. It is
unused in the Docker container, as the configurtaion of the `zulip`
user in the rabbitmq node is done via environment variables. The
Zulip host in that context does not have `rabbitmqctl` installed, and
would have needed to know the Erlang cookie to be able to run these
commands.
In scripts/setup/configure-rabbitmq line 13:
sudo rabbitmqctl $RABBITMQ_FLAGS delete_user "$RABBITMQ_USERNAME" || true
^-- SC2086: Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting.
In scripts/setup/configure-rabbitmq line 14:
sudo rabbitmqctl $RABBITMQ_FLAGS delete_user zulip || true
^-- SC2086: Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting.
In scripts/setup/configure-rabbitmq line 15:
sudo rabbitmqctl $RABBITMQ_FLAGS delete_user guest || true
^-- SC2086: Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting.
In scripts/setup/configure-rabbitmq line 16:
sudo rabbitmqctl $RABBITMQ_FLAGS add_user "$RABBITMQ_USERNAME" "$RABBITMQ_PASSWORD"
^-- SC2086: Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting.
In scripts/setup/configure-rabbitmq line 17:
sudo rabbitmqctl $RABBITMQ_FLAGS set_user_tags "$RABBITMQ_USERNAME" administrator
^-- SC2086: Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting.
In scripts/setup/configure-rabbitmq line 18:
sudo rabbitmqctl $RABBITMQ_FLAGS set_permissions -p / "$RABBITMQ_USERNAME" '.*' '.*' '.*'
^-- SC2086: Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Previously these were hardcoded in zproject/settings.py to be accessed
on localhost.
[Modified by Tim Abbott to adjust comments and fix configure-rabbitmq]
If there's a problem with Django settings then RMQPW would just be
empty, causing more confusing errors downstream.
(imported from commit 5948b1a15eb92fc032ea02e499be58365d8e9ecb)
Alex Vandiver
Anders Kaseorg
Tim Abbott
Anders Kaseorg
Alexander Trost
Tim Abbott
Vladislav Manchev
Reid Barton
Luke Faraone
Tim Abbott