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| author | Tilghman Lesher <tilghman@meg.abyt.es> | 2008-04-08 16:54:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Tilghman Lesher <tilghman@meg.abyt.es> | 2008-04-08 16:54:21 +0000 |
| commit | d2daba25f750a6e0bf815b16fb7934372992e5ba (patch) | |
| tree | 28860c040dd99df13e1cc8456668370040fb280a /contrib | |
| parent | fa875c057851cdcdcb5a9d39b8d22e546d6d4b57 (diff) | |
Merged revisions 113399 via svnmerge from
https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.4
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r113399 | tilghman | 2008-04-08 11:51:28 -0500 (Tue, 08 Apr 2008) | 6 lines
Add security note on astgenkey's manpage.
(closes issue #12373)
Reported by: lmamane
Patches:
20080406__bug12373.diff.txt uploaded by Corydon76 (license 14)
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git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@113400 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3
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| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/scripts/astgenkey.8 | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/scripts/astgenkey.8 b/contrib/scripts/astgenkey.8 index 8f8325982..328a4d259 100644 --- a/contrib/scripts/astgenkey.8 +++ b/contrib/scripts/astgenkey.8 @@ -109,6 +109,21 @@ Run quietly. Don't encrypt the private key. .RE +.SH SECURITY +The keys are created, using the umask of the user running the command. +To create the keys in a secure manner, you should check to ensure that +your umask is first set to disallow the private key from being world- +readable, such as with the following commands: + +.I umask 0066 + +.I astgenkey yourkey + +And then make the key accessible to Asterisk (assuming you run it as +user "asterisk"). + + chown asterisk /var/lib/asterisk/keys/yourname.* + .SH FILES .I /var/lib/asterisk/keys .RS |