[Gllug] Apache mod_ssl
will
will at hellacool.co.uk
Mon Aug 9 16:23:23 UTC 2004
Doug Winter wrote:
> generally in real life the password is kept in a text file on the same
> machine, and then the password entering phase of server start up is
> faked using, as someone else said, some crappy perl script. that is no
> more secure than no password at all, so it seems much simpler just to
> remove the encryption completely.
So it is more secure as long as you don't keep the password in a text
file on the same server then. I would aggree, it is an unlikely attack
on anything I am running.
Will.
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