[NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat Secure Webserver

[Daniel L. Shipman]

So who was your old boss - can I get ahold of him and ask him how he did
it????? - I know it sounds petty but entering it in all the time is a big
pain in the butt

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> From: Alton Pouncey <arpounce at earthlink.net>
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat Secure Webserver
> Date: Friday, January 28, 2000 7:58 PM
> 
> We ran into this same thing at an ISP I used to work for.  I just got
sick of
> typing the PEM phrase all the time.  My boss wrote a kermit script to
send the
> PEM phrase when the server asked for it.  I couldn't believe it when I
saw it
> but it worked.
> 
> Alton Pouncey
> 
> "Daniel L. Shipman" wrote:
> 
> > So - when I got my thawate cert I entered in my PEM pass phrase - BIG
> > mistake - now every time I want to stop my httpsd server or restart it
or
> > anything I have to enter that stupid PEM pass phrase  - Is it really
such a
> > big security thing that it remains secret?????
> >
> > If not how can I have a simple shell script that will enter the
commands
> > httpsd stop
> > Wait for a second or so then enter the PEM pass phrase
> > then enter the command - httpsd
> >
> > Essentially bringing the httpsd server down and then up for quick
> > maintenance like adding virtual domains and such without the hassel of
> > entering the stipid PEM pass phrase.
> >
> > I don't want to open myself up for security problems by having the PEM
pass
> > phrase open to exploitation - but I have friends who didn't enter a PEM
> > pass phrase when the signedup for Thawate and they are able to bring
the
> > httpsd server up and down quick and easy just like the httpd commands
> >
> > Daniel Shipman, VP Internet Services
> > SRJ Marketing Communications
> > Phone * 214-528-5775
> > Fax   * 214-599-0775
> >
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