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PHPasswordPusher is a PHP port of the PasswordPusher project, which provides a more secure method for sharing sensitive information (like passwords) with others. It operates on the principal that using a soon-to-be-expiring link to retrieve sensitive information is better than having the sensitive information persist in email, chat, etc...

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PHPasswordPusher

PHPasswordPusher is a PHP port of the PasswordPusher project, which provides a more secure method for sharing sensitive information (like passwords) with others. It operates on the principle that using a soon-to-be-expiring link to retrieve sensitive information is better than having the sensitive information persist in email, chat, etc...

Note: PHPasswordPusher is appropriate for constrained deployment environments requiring older version of PHP >= 5.3. For modern environments capable of PHP >= 5.5.9, Agrippa is recommended for this purpose instead. Both versions are being actively maintained as of September 2015.

Overview

A user will enter the sensitive information (password, etc.) into the link form, set a view and time limit, and receive a link. That link is communicated to the intended recipient, who then can retrieve the sensitive information until the view or time limits are breached.

Demo

A demo is available at https://vaindil.pw/pwpushdemo.

Feature Set

  • Secure Password/Credential Sharing and Storage
  • Emailing Features
  • Language Translation
  • Deletion Link
  • CAS (via phpCAS) and Apache Authentication Support

Environment

PHPasswordPusher has so far been tested with the following environment:

  • Linux (RHEL 5 and CentOS 5, though other distributions should work.)
  • Apache
  • MySQL 5.1.6+
  • PHP 5.3+
  • Central Authentication Service (CAS) 3.5.1 (optional)

Installation

  1. Set up the environment. You will need to install these packages: mysql-server, httpd (apache2), php, php-mcrypt, php-mysql, and php-xml.
  2. Change configuration options in ./pwpusher_private/config.php
  3. Change configuration options in ./install.php. Remember to remove the credentials in this file when you're done with step 4!
  4. From the command-line interface, run php install.php
  5. Copy the pwpusher_private and pwpusher_public directories to the same NON-PUBLIC directory of your choice (for instance, /var/www, but not inside public_html).
  6. Configure Apache (customize the below sample as noted). If you care about security enough to use this project, you should definitely be using HTTPS and redirecting users requests from non-secure ports (for instance 80, in the default configuration) to whatever port is HTTPS-enabled (typically 443). The Apache documentation will help here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ssl/ssl_faq.html
  7. Enable the mcrypt extension, either with sudo php5enmod mcrypt (Ubuntu) or by editing /etc/php.ini and adding extension=mcrypt.so (CentOS). Be sure to reload Apache.
  8. Test your installation by navigating to http(s)://yourwebserver/youralias
  9. Celebrate victory.

Apache Config Example


##### PHPasswordPusher #####

### Change "/youralias" and "/your/installation/dir/" to fit your installation:
Alias /youralias /your/installation/dir/pwpusher_public

### Change "/your/installation/dir/" to fit your installation:
<Directory /your/installation/dir/pwpusher_public>

    #If you use the email functionality, you should definitely enable authentication of some sort.
    #PHPassword Pusher supports both Apache auth (below) and CAS authentication (see config.ini for details)
    
    #AuthName "Your login message."
    #AuthType Basic
    #AuthUserFile /your/.htpasswd
    #require valid-user

    AllowOverride None

    # Include the below when using Apache 2.4+:
    # Require all granted 
    
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all      
    DirectoryIndex pw.php  
</Directory>

### Change "/your/installation/dir/" to fit your installation:
<Directory /your/installation/dir/pwpusher_private>
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

Contributing

Fork and create changes against the develop branch, then create a pull request. Thank you!

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