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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 |