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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:40:45 +0800
From:      "jan gestre" <freebsd.ph@gmail.com>
To:        "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        Liste FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: getting rid of apache passphrase
Message-ID:  <a25afc300607130740i3193909bmd0ca0eabd4effe45@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <44B65784.9020309@mac.com>
References:  <a25afc300607130706n54129229i53b9e5c62878d2e2@mail.gmail.com> <44B65784.9020309@mac.com>

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On 7/13/06, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
>
> jan gestre wrote:
> > just want to ask if getting rid of the apache passphrase poses a
> security
> > threat, i don't want the company i worked for calling me up everytime
> they
> > cant access the webserver because the server is asking for the
> passphrase
> > everytime the box restarts du to power failure.
>
> Presumably you're talking about an Apache server using SSL where the SSL
> key
> requires a password?  Requiring a human to enter the password is more
> secure,
> but if you want the system to reboot without manual intervention, you'll
> have
> to remove the password or put it into a script...
>
> yes, i'm talking about apache with ssl/tls encryption, is that passphrase
> going to be a security issue in the internet or locally at the machine
> level? if it's machine level, i have no problem getting rid of it coz nobody
> here knows anything about unix/bsd.
>



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