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| author | tilghman <tilghman@f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b> | 2008-04-08 16:56:43 +0000 |
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| committer | tilghman <tilghman@f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b> | 2008-04-08 16:56:43 +0000 |
| commit | 65d1d68add4b570fa88498bcf3f10a1a02431d7b (patch) | |
| tree | 3021ac4dacc0ad4b8a1bcf884bb60b7e6e32220d /contrib | |
| parent | bab52dfffc3d68ef333c1f70f1ded747205e7e94 (diff) | |
Merged revisions 113400 via svnmerge from
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r113400 | tilghman | 2008-04-08 11:54:21 -0500 (Tue, 08 Apr 2008) | 14 lines
Merged revisions 113399 via svnmerge from
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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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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 |