When running sosreport our cephx authentication key is visible in plain text in qemu logs and ps outputs

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When running sosreport the cephx authentication key is visible in plain text in the following files within the sosreport tarball: 
./sos_commands/process/ps_auxwww
./sos_commands/process/ps_auxwww
./sos_commands/process/ps_auxwwwm
./sos_commands/process/ps_auxwwwm
./sos_commands/process/ps_alxwww
./sos_commands/process/ps_alxwww
./sos_commands/process/ps_axo_flags_state_uid_pid_ppid_pgid_sid_cls_pri_addr_sz_wchan_stime_tty_time_cmd
./sos_commands/process/ps_axo_flags_state_uid_pid_ppid_pgid_sid_cls_pri_addr_sz_wchan_stime_tty_time_cmd
./var/log/libvirt/qemu/instance-xxxxxxxx.log

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • sos-3.2-28

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