I would recommend just storing the passphrase in the certificates, it's
more secure than having a script with the password encoded in it (unless
it's a very impressive script, at least.)  You can fidn instructions on how
to do that at this URL: http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.3/ssl_faq.html#ToC25


At 07:57 AM 8/10/99, you wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>
>I have different passphrases for each server. I want the servers to come
>up on bootup without being prompted for a passphrase so in the mod_ssl
>section I point to a script that echoes a passphrase. There is only space
>in the mod_ssl section for one passphrase script. How do I start multiple
>secure servers this way? Should I change to have the same passphrase for
>all servers? I forget whether this passphrase is part of the private key
>that is used to make the certificates, or if it is just to start the
>servers. If it is used to make the certificates I would like to have
>a different passphrase for each server.
>
>PS I'm using your counter module. Thanks for writing it. I have about 60
>IP based virtual hosts each with an index.html file below its own
>DocumentRoot. Any time that one of the index.html files is accessed, the
>counter for all of the index.html files is incremented. Do you know what
>I've done wrong?

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