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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)

Want to link to this manual page? Use this URL:
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