Re: How do I skip the pass phrase prompt on OpenLDAP startup

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Monday, November 27, 2006 2:53 PM -0800 Rob Tanner 
<rtanner@linfield.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Right now I'm just testing SSL with a self-signed certificate, but one
> potentially serious issue has come up.  When ever I restart OpenLDAP I
> get the prompt "Enter PEM pass phrase".  This means that the OpenLDAP
> server can auto-start on reboot.  Is there anyway to bypass that?  In
> apache, for example, SSLPassPhraseDialog has an option to execute a
> program, and I use that option to supply the pass phrase.  Is there any
> kind of equivalent in OpenLDAP.

You should decrypt the SSL key so it doesn't require a password to read it. 
But this is really a question about how to use OpenSSL, and not related to 
OpenLDAP itself, so fairly off topic here.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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