On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Joseph S D Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Even if 'httpd' is still running as root when reading the cert, and so
> able to use it, it is still a bad idea to have it OWNED by root - you
> still have to have super-user powers to maintain it.  Bad, bad, bad,
> bad, bad.

You should need superuser access to read, much less modify, a
[unencrypted] private key used by Apache.

> and so the uncloaked cert files should be stored as
> read-only by "apache".

This is criminally negligent advice, as the userid used for
request-processing shouldn't be able to read this confidential data.

-- 
Eric Covener
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