AMANDA-AUTH-SSL(7) Miscellanea AMANDA-AUTH-SSL(7) NAME amanda-auth-ssl - SSL Communication/Authentication methods between Amanda server and client DESCRIPTION This authenticate method use ssl certificate to authenticate host, all transfer over the network is encrypted. Each amanda client/server must have its own certificate signed by the amanda CA certificate. COMPILATION AND GENERAL INFORMATION Amanda must be configure with --with-ssl-security SERVER/CLIENT CONFIGURATION In amanda.conf and amanda-client.conf. ssl-dir The directoty where amanda store all the certificates. A good value is ~/amanda-ssl. ssl-check-certificate-host Check the peer hostname match the certificate host name. ssl-check-fingerprint Check the fingerprint of the certificate is the same as the fingerprint we already have for that host. ssl-check-host Do the bsd check, dns name of peer IP is the hostname we connect to. FILESYSTEM LAYOUT FOR CERTIFICATES $SSL_DIR/CA/crt.pem # CA certificate that signed all certificates. $SSL_DIR/CA/private/key.pem # CA private key (on server only) $SSL_DIR/me/crt.pem # public certificate of the host $SSL_DIR/me/private/key.pem # private key of the host $SSL_DIR/me/fingerprint # fingerprint of my certificate $SSL_DIR/remote/HOSTNAME/fingerprint # fingerprint of the HOSTNAME certificate On the HOSTNAME host, $SSL_DIR/remote/HOSTNAME is a symbolic link to ../me. PROGRAM TO HELP CONFIGURATION The amssl program is a tool to manage the certificate. SEE ALSO amanda(8), amanda.conf(5), amanda-client.conf(5), disklist(5), amdump(8), amrecover(8), amssl(8), amanda-auth(7) The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/ AUTHORS Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com) Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com) Paul Yeatman <pyeatman@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com) Amanda 3.5.1 12/01/2017 AMANDA-AUTH-SSL(7)
NAME | DESCRIPTION | COMPILATION AND GENERAL INFORMATION | SERVER/CLIENT CONFIGURATION | FILESYSTEM LAYOUT FOR CERTIFICATES | PROGRAM TO HELP CONFIGURATION | SEE ALSO | AUTHORS
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