Don't prompt for SSL Pass Phrase

[Jon D. Slater]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Fr, den 11.11.2005 schrieb Jon D. Slater um 18:44:
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>>>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-November/msg01104.html
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>>>Paul.
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>>Thanks Paul,
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>>Seems straight-forward enough, but it didn't work...
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>>I decrypted according to the instructions, then (to test) restarted 
>>httpd and was again prompted for a "pass-phrase".
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>>What did I miss?  (Not that there's a lot to miss in 2 lines of 
>>instructions.)
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>>Jon
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>I would have been good if you had posted what exactly you did. From what
>you wrote I assume you chose the alternate where one removes the
>passphrase from the RSA key. So, given your passphrase protected is
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>/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key
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>you run following:
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>1) cd /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key
>2) mv server.key server-rsa.key
>3) openssl rsa -in server-rsa.key > server.key
>4) chmod 400 server.key
>5) chown root:root server.key
>6) service httpd restart
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>Alexander
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That's exactly what I did...  (Just to remove any doubt, I actually 
cut-n-pasted your commands.)

After step 6 I get:

> Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
> Starting httpd: Apache/2.0.54 mod_ssl/2.0.54 (Pass Phrase Dialog)
> Some of your private key files are encrypted for security reasons.
> In order to read them you have to provide the pass phrases.
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> Server www.blahblahblah.com:443 (RSA)
> Enter pass phrase:
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> OK: Pass Phrase Dialog successful.
>                                                            [  OK  ]



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