From: Tilghman Lesher <tilghman@meg.abyt.es>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:51:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add security note on astgenkey's manpage.
X-Git-Tag: 1.4.20-rc1~86
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4e44f14c3218961ff5d76c12d53d92177c1e4ffd;p=thirdparty%2Fasterisk.git

Add security note on astgenkey's manpage.
(closes issue #12373)
 Reported by: lmamane
 Patches:
       20080406__bug12373.diff.txt uploaded by Corydon76 (license 14)


git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.4@113399 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3
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diff --git a/contrib/scripts/astgenkey.8 b/contrib/scripts/astgenkey.8
index 8f83259827..328a4d2596 100644
--- a/contrib/scripts/astgenkey.8
+++ b/contrib/scripts/astgenkey.8
@@ -109,6 +109,21 @@ Run quietly.
 Don't encrypt the private key.
 .RE
 
+.SH SECURITY
+The keys are created, using the umask of the user running the command.
+To create the keys in a secure manner, you should check to ensure that
+your umask is first set to disallow the private key from being world-
+readable, such as with the following commands:
+
+.I umask 0066
+
+.I astgenkey yourkey
+
+And then make the key accessible to Asterisk (assuming you run it as
+user "asterisk").
+
+  chown asterisk /var/lib/asterisk/keys/yourname.*
+
 .SH FILES
 .I /var/lib/asterisk/keys
 .RS