On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:39:07PM +0100, Mark Tiramani wrote:
> the following (global server config only) will do the trick: 
> 
> SSLPassPhraseDialog exec:/path/to/script/get_pass 
> 
> where get_pass is a script, executable etc. that picks up the server
> identifiers passed  to it when mod_ssl/Apache starts up. 

And of course, thsi script must NEVER be executable by a local
user on the machine, or [s]he could simply do...

   echo ServerName:port | /path/to/script/get_pass

and could see the password in plaintext.

    Martin
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