On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:02:15PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:56:34PM +0100, poeml@cmdline.net wrote:
It needs to be improved inside apache. Or an external program could be used to query for the passphrase -- and it could run on another virtual console (like vt8), but asynchroneously.
Unfortunately, the apache itself will wait forever for a passphrase, it doesn't have a timeout yet, so this is not very suitable for booting.
It would be OK to wait forever if it would not block the boot process. Thus, as you mentioned above, running it asynchroneously on another console would be perfectly OK (IMHO).
But I still don't understand why apache don't start serving until the timeout is expired.
it is also possible that multiple certificates are configured, and multiple passphrases need to be entered for decryption.
When running async on a different console, this would be OK, too.
BTW, My personal workaround (so far) is to either put the passphrase(s) onto disk,
Then you don't need a passphrase at all :-(
I will put this as enhancement request into bugzilla, so it doesn't get lost.
Thanks!
It is now tracked here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=151200 Thanks again, Peter -- When in danger, or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. -- Robert A. Heinlein