Krishna Yenduri wrote:
> Darren J Moffat wrote:
>> When stunnel is used to provide a SSL protected system service on a
>> well known port, the stunnel command needs to be started by a
>> privileged user. It should be started when the system boots, for this
>> reason a Solaris specific smf(5) manifest is provided to enable a
>> stunnel service.
>>
>> The svc:/network/stunnel:default service is disabled by default because
>> it requires configuration before use. A sample configuration file is
>> also provided.
>>   
> 
>  I would recommend changing the FMRI to
>     svc:/network/ssl/stunnel:default
>  since kernel SSL (KSSL) added network/ssl.
> 
>  BTW, stunnel is a nice complement to kernel SSL because it can do client
>  side SSL. kernel SSL gives better performance on the server side
>  where performance is more important.

I agree with Krishna's suggestion on the FMRI, I did go looking for it 
but forgot that there are no kssl instances by default so it didn't show 
up in "svcs -a | grep ssl".

-- 
Darren J Moffat

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