In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:48:34 -0400, Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
mrsam> Josef Ender writes: mrsam> mrsam> > Hello All mrsam> > mrsam> > We want to use courier pop and imap with ssl. Therefore we created mrsam> > private keys and certificates and put it in the right place. mrsam> > We use a private key protected with a passphrase. But courier does not mrsam> > ask for a passphrase during startup. mrsam> > I already searched through the mailing list and read about how to mrsam> > generate an unprotected key. But we do not want to store the key mrsam> > unencrypted (unsafe) on our mailservers. mrsam> > It is not a problem if somebody has to enter the key at startup. mrsam> > mrsam> > Is there any way to enter the password during startup or to feed the mrsam> > passphrase in any other way? mrsam> mrsam> No. I wouldn't say no too fast. courier links with OpenSSL, right? I'm sure it would be possible to whip up and configure an OpenSSL engine module that does the work. Question is how to communicate with it... Mind you, this is my gut speaking, I haven't really put any thought into it. But it does sound like a worthy OpenSSL project to attempt :-). Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
