Re: How to hide the keystorePass at the server.xml

2006-06-02 Thread David Wall
Leon Rosenberg wrote: On 6/2/06, Bill Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TC 3.3.x had an optional module to do this. It never got ported. I generally agree with most of the people that say that this is the least of your problems. If you are usings a self-signed cert, then you are just getti

Re: How to hide the keystorePass at the server.xml

2006-06-02 Thread Leon Rosenberg
On 6/2/06, Bill Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TC 3.3.x had an optional module to do this. It never got ported. I generally agree with most of the people that say that this is the least of your problems. If you are usings a self-signed cert, then you are just getting what you deserve. Othe

Re: How to hide the keystorePass at the server.xml

2006-06-02 Thread Bill Barker
TC 3.3.x had an optional module to do this. It never got ported. I generally agree with most of the people that say that this is the least of your problems. If you are usings a self-signed cert, then you are just getting what you deserve. Otherwise, you simply contact the CA and revoke the c

RE: How to hide the keystorePass at the server.xml

2006-05-31 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: David Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > What's the downside if someone who > has access to your filesystem has access to the SSL cert > keystore? They > can remove and install certs, but I could do that anyway by > putting in a > new keystore. Somehow they'd need to take your keystor

Re: How to hide the keystorePass at the server.xml

2006-05-31 Thread David Wall
Hi Eric: I am sorry. I am a beginner of Tomcat. How does it work? Have the current Tomcat already been doing that? Is it just put an encrypted keystore password at the server.xml? or don't even mention any keystore password at the server.xml at all? Regards Dickson I don't think TC does thi

Re: How to hide the keystorePass at the server.xml

2006-05-31 Thread David Wall
No, you just have the keystore encrypted with a password and _don't_ specify it in the config file. Then when tomcat starts up, and can't open the keystore w/o a password, it knows it has to ask for it, but it isn't stored anywhere on the machine. That's what apache httpd does if the c

RE: How to hide the keystorePass at the server.xml

2006-05-31 Thread Dickson Lam \(dilam\)
ssage- From: Eric Haszlakiewicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:46 AM To: Tomcat Users List Cc: David Wall Subject: Re: How to hide the keystorePass at the server.xml On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:46:42PM -0700, David Wall wrote: > A possible sounding solution would be to hav

Re: How to hide the keystorePass at the server.xml

2006-05-31 Thread Eric Haszlakiewicz
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:46:42PM -0700, David Wall wrote: > A possible sounding solution would be to have tomcat start in a > protected mode that requires an admin connect and enter a password > before TC would allow the webapps to load. But even this would require > that TC be configured to

Re: How to hide the keystorePass at the server.xml

2006-05-30 Thread David Wall
Shankar Unni wrote: Robert Harper wrote: One thing to think of is that if you have to do that to protect it, then everything else on that system is suspect. Yeah, yeah. I used to use this argument a lot, too. But that's like saying: if your harness isn't secure, then why bother with an add

Re: How to hide the keystorePass at the server.xml

2006-05-30 Thread Shankar Unni
Robert Harper wrote: One thing to think of is that if you have to do that to protect it, then everything else on that system is suspect. Yeah, yeah. I used to use this argument a lot, too. But that's like saying: if your harness isn't secure, then why bother with an additional safety net bel

RE: How to hide the keystorePass at the server.xml

2006-05-30 Thread Robert Harper
config files, they can also get at the user database and user information. Robert S. Harper Information Access Technology, Inc. -Original Message- From: Dickson Lam (dilam) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 2:20 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: How to hide the

How to hide the keystorePass at the server.xml

2006-05-30 Thread Dickson Lam \(dilam\)
Hi, I am using Tomcat 5.5.16 window version. When I configure Tomcat to use SSL, I need to put the "keystorePass" password on the Tomcat server.xml file which is in plain text format. Is it anyway I can hide the keystore password from the server.xml? or configure Tomcat to read in an encry