how to enable user password encryption in vicidial
Vicidial user password encryption
Topic: how to enable user password encryption in vicidial
Overview:
VICIdial is an enterprise class, open source, contact center suite in use by many large call centers around the world. VICIdial has a full featured predictive dialer. It is capable of inbound, outbound, and blended phone call handling.
By Default, in vicidial the user passwords are served in plain text, that is visible to other users who logged in as admin, to avoid this you can use the user password encryption which i have demonstrated in this blog tutorial
You can follow this Blog also i have upload video tutorial for the same topic
https://youtu.be/BqKscbxJGD0
STEPS : Enabling the Vicidial Password Encryption
Step 1: Installing Bcrypt perl
Using the CPAN console install the Bcrypt, run the below command
cpan
install Crypt::Eksblowfish::Bcrypt
Step 2: Enabling the Password Encryption
By default the Password encryption is disabled in Vicidial, you check the same under ADMIN > SYSTEM SETTINGS > PASSWORD ENCRYPTION: Disabled.
To enable Password Encryption feature you need to the vicidial script at command line console.
SSH to your vicidial server linux console, and run the below command to make sure Encryption works without any error.
/usr/share/astguiclient/ADMIN_bcrypt_convert.pl --debugX --test
If no errors received run the same script without --test flag as shown below
/usr/share/astguiclient/ADMIN_bcrypt_convert.pl --debugX
Now navigate to ADMIN > SYSTEM SETTINGS > PASSWORD ENCRYPTION
now you may notice the Password Encryption is enabled, Followed to that any new users created in the vicidial the passwords will be encrypted.
Step 3: Encrypting Plain Text Password
All the users passwords which are created before enabling the Password encryption, will remain as clear plain text ,to encrypt the existing plain text passwords either manually edit them and update or run the below command to convert all the plain text to encrypted text.
/usr/share/astguiclient/ADMIN_bcrypt_convert.pl --clear-plaintext-pass
or
/usr/share/astguiclient/ADMIN_bcrypt_convert.pl --debugX --update-override --clear-plaintext-pass
How to Reset the Forgotten Password
If you have forget the admin password , you need to update the password under mysql/mariadb with the hashed password, for non-admin users either you can update the password from admin login or follow the below procedure.
Step 1: Generate the Hash Password
Run the below command from SSH console with the password which you want to set of a user
for example for admin user 6666 i need to set a password as admin123
/srv/www/htdocs/agc/bp.pl --pass=admin123
The above command will output the HASHED value of admin123 ,copy that proceed to step 2
Step 2: Updating the Mysql user table
once hash password generated run the below mysql command with the password generated in step 1
mysql -p
use asterisk;
UPDATE vicidial_users set pass_hash='kfYvywV959fn09rSZML70wHjjxsaYjm' where user='6666';
Now you can login to the vicidial admin or agent portal with the new password.
Conclusion:
hope you now you able to encrypt the user password of vicidial
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In the Step2 in first line there are typo:
should be "/usr/share/astguiclient/ADMIN_bcrypt_convert.pl --debugX --test
" instead "... –test"
thanks
showing you must run in test mode first