I need to use signed certificates with stunnel. New to the whole certificate thing. I have the certificate and key and built the .PEM file but when I try to start stunnel in the background it asks me to enter the PEM password. How can I enter the password and have stunnel start during boot?
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Bob wrote:
I need to use signed certificates with stunnel. New to the whole certificate thing. I have the certificate and key and built the .PEM file but when I try to start stunnel in the background it asks me to enter the PEM password. How can I enter the password and have stunnel start during boot?
By not having it ask for a password if you're not there to enter the aforementioned password. You can make a key passwordless by the waving your magic wand and typing:
openssl rsa -in <password-protected-key.pem> -out <passwordless-key.pem>
assuming you are using an RSA key.
Naturally you understand the security risks of having a key without a passphrase, weighed it against the change of the machine the key is on being hacked and thinking about the consequences of said hack taking place. If not, maybe think through that first? ;).
Jan
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