Hi Jose,

You’re right. Sorry. I did not realize the current owner of the private key is the root user. You can change the file owner to the user  running stunnel with chown command or follow Mike‘s advice in his answer to your post. In any case, the file should not be workd readable.

regards
Jose

On 29/11/2021, at 9:52 AM, jose isaias cabrera <jicman@gmail.com> wrote:



On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 9:34 AM Josealf.rm <josealf@rocketmail.com> wrote:
Hola Jose,

Private key should be readable just for the user running stunnel. Try

chmod 600 /etc/ssl/private.key

regards,

Gracias, José. The problem now is this:
[ ] Loading private key from file: /etc/ssl/private.key
[!] error queue: ../ssl/ssl_rsa.c:540: error:140B0002:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file:system lib
[!] error queue: ../crypto/bio/bss_file.c:290: error:20074002:BIO routines:file_ctrl:system lib
[!] SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file: ../crypto/bio/bss_file.c:288: error:0200100D:system library:fopen:Permission
denied
[!] Service [https]: Failed to initialize TLS context

So, I don't think that is right. I will set it back to 644.

 

> On 29/11/2021, at 9:13 AM, jose isaias cabrera <jicman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
>
> Greetings!
>
> I have duckduckgo'ed and I have not found an answer, but what should be the permissions for the private key since the stunnel is giving me a warning/error regarding that:
> ...
> [ ] Loading private key from file: /etc/ssl/private.key
> [:] Insecure file permissions on /etc/ssl/private.key
> [ ] Private key loaded from file: /etc/ssl/private.key
> ...
>
> this is that I have set:
> jic@web:~$ ls -l  /etc/ssl/private.key
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root www-data 1702 Oct 13 02:54 /etc/ssl/private.key
>
> the www-data is the user that runs the website.  All is running well, apparently, but, I would like to set the correct permission on the private.key file. Thanks for your support.
>
> josé
>
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