#!/bin/bash # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/mail-mta/netqmail/files/qmail-genrsacert.sh,v 1.2 2006/05/06 20:15:11 hansmi Exp $ # Robin H. Johnson - October 17, 2003 # # This file generates the static temporary RSA keys needed for qmail to encrypt # messages. It should be run from a crontab, once a day is ok on low load # machines, but if you do lots of mail, once per hour is more reasonable if you # do NOT create the rsa512.pem, qmail will generate it on the fly for each # connection, which can be VERY slow. confdir=${ROOT}/var/qmail/control # the key should be 0600 # which is readable by qmaild only! umaskvalue="0077" uid="qmaild" gid="qmail" umask ${umaskvalue} # If you want to renice this process, uncomment the following line: # renice +15 "$$" >/dev/null # This is a list with bits of the generated keys. They should # be a power of 2 ideally and must be more than 64. keys="512 1024" for bits in ${keys} do pemfile="${confdir}/rsa${bits}.pem" tmpfile="${confdir}/rsa${bits}.pem.tmp" # we need to make sure that all of the operations succeed /usr/bin/openssl genrsa -out ${tmpfile} ${bits} 2>/dev/null && \ /bin/chown ${uid}:${gid} ${tmpfile} && \ /bin/mv -f ${tmpfile} ${pemfile} || exit 1 dhfile="${confdir}/dh${bits}.pem" dtmpfile="${confdir}/dh${bits}.pem.tmp" /usr/bin/openssl dhparam -2 -out ${dtmpfile} ${bits} 2>/dev/null && \ /bin/chown ${uid}:${gid} ${dtmpfile} && \ /bin/mv -f ${dtmpfile} ${dhfile} || exit 1 done