At 10:57 PM 7.26.2002 -0500, David F. Reed wrote:
>Dear SSL experts and aficionados and RH gurus,
>
>I am hoping someone out there has a piece of arcane (to me)
>knowledge...
>
>(Running RH-7.3,  apache-1.3.23-14, openssl-0.9.6b-18)
>
>I note that during reboot (a rare event), some one trusted
>has to be around to manually key in the pass phrase to the
>server.key file - sometimes it waits for this, and sometimes not;
>in either case, unattended, the httpd sits around waiting to start.
>
>(I learned this the other day when a power outage convinced
>my system to shut down, and it restarted when power resumed).
>
>So my question is, is there a way to generate a key that does not
>look for a pass phrase, or automagically pipe the contents of some
>file, or some such work around, so that unattended, it can
>come up and function as a server?
>
>Any discussion of experience would be helpful
>
>Many thanks.
>
>--Dave
>
....oops! It's still early here and no coffee. I see now that you run
Linux, so the paths will be different...., but perhaps the commands will
work. Not familiar with Linux....

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

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