Harald,

I am beginning to see what you are doing; through some foggy glasses. Still need to read more, and today was not a reading day. I am struggling to understand the attack space.

How can the user submit their cookie over an non-ssl connection when the server redirects everything to https? The only senario I have come up with is with the login screen in front of them, the user changes the method to http, enters in their data and sends?

So I have been running SquirrelMail as a virtual host over https and here the jist of what I have used:

<VirtualHost *:443>

    ServerName webmail
    ServerAlias webmail.foo.com
    SSLEngine On
        SSLCertificateFile ...crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile ...key

    DocumentRoot /usr/share/squirrelmail

    <Directory "/usr/share/squirrelmail">
        ...
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Any connection to http://webmail.foo.com gets returned as https://webmail.foo.com It took a bit of reading to get to this setup.

I will probably have to check with wireshark about what is going on if I change the method to http for any screen and what happens after login.

I do want to run Roundcube as a virtual host.

On 12/27/2012 06:40 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:

Am 28.12.2012 00:24, schrieb Jan M. Dziewulski:
On 27/12/2012 23:17, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

hmmm. Thinking (really!) I should change it back and try
https:/.../webmail and see if it works. If it does, I need to add a
force redirect to the roundcube.conf. Thinking more, this is reasonable
as this is how my current squirrelmail works.
But shouldn't people be accessing it via https anyway? I mean without the need 
for a redirection? Adding a
redirection increases security issues (for your site) so I personally would not 
be keen to do that
it does not if it is done right

<Directory "roundcube-dir">
  php_admin_flag session.cookie_secure "1"
</Directory>

this makes sure that there will NEVER a client send the
session cookie unencrypted, if you get a external security
audit and do not use tis setting for https sites you
will get warned by the auditor and if not he did not make
his job!


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