From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 11:08:40 2004 Return-Path: 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 57E7116A4CE for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:08:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.rtc.ro (mail.rtc.ro [212.93.139.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10CE143D45 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:08:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cristi.tauber@sbhost.ro) Received: (qmail 23093 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2004 13:54:21 +0300 Received: from unknown (HELO sbhost.ro) (212.93.139.11) by mail.rtc.ro with SMTP; 4 Oct 2004 13:54:21 +0300 Message-ID: <41613CF6.206E718E@sbhost.ro> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 14:07:18 +0200 From: Cristi Tauber X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Remko Lodder References: <35BF716A-14B7-11D9-9E70-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> <415F1AA5.3080001@elvandar.org> <554B282C-14BE-11D9-9E70-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> <415F26E7.1020200@elvandar.org> <57637.145.221.24.40.1096874073.squirrel@145.221.24.40> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntivirusScanner: eTrust Antivirus v7 X-eTrust-Spam: 0 X-eTrust-Signatures: 23.66.73 cc: Eric Crist cc: Gary Dunn cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Starting apache at boot with SSL. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:08:40 -0000 Remko Lodder wrote: > > I chose to protect my SSL cert with a passphrase. This makes automatic > > startup at boot impossible. I use FBSD 4.10, and apache would normally > > start via a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.conf. I just made sure there > > was > > ehm this is not totally true, you can startup automatically by > havnig a little script that does the following > > #!/bin/sh > > echo '' > > Then there is thingy with the phrase 'builtin' into it. You can change > that so that the previous bin sh script gets invoked and the server > will startup at that point. > > For the correct syntax i would need to look into my own configuration > which i cannot access at this moment. > > > no .sh script for apache, and start it myself using apachectl startssl. > > The problem with this setup is that if the server reboots in the middle > > of the night the web server does not come on, but this almost never > > happens anyway. You have to balance security with convenience to fit > > your situation, and I chose security. > > > > > > > > Cheers! > > -- > Kind regards, > > Remko Lodder |remko@elvandar.org > Reporter DSINet |remko@dsinet.org > Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |remko@mostly-harmless.nl > Founder Tienervaders |remko@tienervaders.org > For a same question here was my response from Josh Hansen : ________ Hello Cristi, This is from the apache site: How can I get rid of the pass-phrase dialog at Apache startup time? The reason why this dialog pops up at startup and every re-start is that the RSA private key inside your server.key file is stored in encrypted format for security reasons. The pass-phrase is needed to be able to read and parse this file. When you can be sure that your server is secure enough you perform two steps: 1. Remove the encryption from the RSA private key (while preserving the original file): $ cp server.key server.key.org $ openssl rsa -in server.key.org -out server.key 2. Make sure the server.key file is now only readable by root: $ chmod 400 server.key Now server.key will contain an unencrypted copy of the key. If you point your server at this file it will not prompt you for a pass-phrase. HOWEVER, if anyone gets this key they will be able to impersonate you on the net. PLEASE make sure that the permissions on that file are really such that only root or the web server user can read it (preferably get your web server to start as root but run as another server, and have the key readable only by root). As an alternative approach you can use the ``SSLPassPhraseDialog exec:/path/to/program'' facility. But keep in mind that this is neither more nor less secure, of course. ____________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > --------------------------------------------------- > This message and its contents have been scanned and certified for > transmission as being free from malicious code by <>. This > message may contain confidential, privileged or other legally protected > information. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. 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