[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#390861: fetchmail: Daemon Mode: Can't work with encrypted user private keys

Nico Golde nico at ngolde.de
Tue Oct 3 17:39:24 UTC 2006


severity 390861 minor
tags 390861 + confirmed upstream
thanks

Hi,
* Stephan Seitz <nur-ab-sal at gmx.de> [2006-10-03 15:38]:
> Package: fetchmail
> Version: 6.3.4-6
> Severity: normal
> 
> I need to give a client certificate to my server. If my private 
> key is encrypted fetchmail only asks for my password at the 
> server but not for my private key passphrase. The log file says:
> 	Enter PEM pass phrase:
> but fetchmail is already in the background. The man page says 
> for sslkey "This can cause some complications in daemon 
> mode.???, but in which situations will this work in daemon mode? 
> I never found one.
> 
> I would prefer a fix of fetchmail to ask for all passwords 
> before going into background, or at least the man page should be 
> updated to say, that this will never work.

I think updating the manpage would not be enough, I forward
this to upstream. I downgraded the bug to minor since this 
is not a very common situation.
Kind regards
Nico
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