FreeSWITCH 1.8

Registration passwords as hashes

Registration credentials do not need to be passed or kept on disk in plain-text. When defining SIP credentials in your User Directoryy, instead of including the following line:

<param name="password" value="samiam"/> 

replace it with a pre-calculated a1-hash of the password, like the following:

<param name="a1-hash" value="c6440e5de50b403206989679159de89a"/> 

To generate a1-hash, on a linux box get the md5 of the string username:domain:password, which is your username, domain name, and password all tied together with a colon. As an example:

echo -n "darren:2600hz.com:pass1234" | md5sum 
b62d1e3e27773ffd173c87e342a6aace 

You would utilize the returned hash in your User Directory entry. This means you did ...