From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 14:53:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B592A16A4E0 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:53:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4342743D7B for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:53:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A172060C3; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:53:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id jXKYQVTU8fBB; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:53:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.251] (pool-68-161-117-245.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.117.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B2E45C32; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:53:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44B65E69.1010608@mac.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:53:29 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jan gestre References: <44B65784.9020309@mac.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Liste FreeBSD Subject: Re: getting rid of apache passphrase X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:53:43 -0000 jan gestre wrote: [ ... ] > 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. It's only at the local machine level. However, you should be aware that people outside your organization do know things about Unix/BSD :-), so be sure to keep your servers up-to-date with regard to security patches. -- -Chuck