[Icecast] SSL Setup

José Luis Artuch artuch at speedy.com.ar
Fri Jul 21 17:27:41 UTC 2017


El vie, 21-07-2017 a las 19:07 +0200, Marvin Scholz escribió:
> 
> On 21 Jul 2017, at 18:41, José Luis Artuch wrote:
> 
> > Hello !
> > 
> > El lun, 10-07-2017 a las 09:31 +0000, Philipp Schafft escribió:
> > > Good morning,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 01:25 +0000, ScanCaster wrote:
> > > > IceCast is one of the last services I have that doesn't connect
> > > > securely, 
> > > > and I am looking to close that hole....
> > > > [...]
> > > > OK... add a port for SSL for IceCast in icecast.xml...path for
> > > > cert
> > > > file 
> > > > in same.... no biggie
> > > 
> > > The <ssl-certificate> belongs in the <paths> section of the
> > > config
> > > file.
> > > (I'm not sure what you mean with 'in same', just wanted to make
> > > it
> > > clear.)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > The key/cert needs to be in a dir and file with applicable
> > > > permissions 
> > > > for the IceCast user... no biggie..
> > > > 
> > > > chown icecastusergroup:icecastusergroup  certfile
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > What I am looking to confirm is that the cert file needs to
> > > > contain:
> > > > 
> > > > -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
> > > > MII
> > > > -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
> > > > 
> > > > -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
> > > > MI
> > > > -----END CERTIFICATE----- 
> > > > 
> > > > Where the Cert is the file/text Comodo sends me, and the key is
> > > > the
> > > > one 
> > > > openssl spit out earlier, 
> > > > 
> > > > Combine them up in certfile, Correct? Special order?? KEY then
> > > > Cert, or v-
> > > > v? Line separating them?
> > > 
> > > The format is the OpenSSL format: key, blank line, cert (chain).
> > > echo | cat key.pem - cert.pem > combo.pem
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > kill -HUP pidOfIcecast
> > > 
> > > As of Icecast2 2.4.x you need to restart Icecast to reload the
> > > cert.
> > > There is however a fix in 2.5.x (development) which is hopefully
> > > released with the next development update.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > And good????
> > > > 
> > > > One thing can the web server spit out just a text file that is
> > > > used
> > > > by 
> > > > Comodo to verify ownership of the domain? The DNS method
> > > > normally 
> > > > fails....
> > > 
> > > Sure. Just put it into the webroot (<webroot> in <paths>).
> > > Icecast
> > > handles files in webroot according to your operating system's
> > > mine-
> > > type
> > > table.
> > > 
> > 
> > On Debian 9, in the configuration file it says:
> > 
> > <webroot>/usr/share/icecast2/web</webroot>
> > <ssl-certificate>/usr/share/icecast2/icecast.pem</ssl-certificate>
> > 
> > What should be the correct path of the icecast.pem file ?.
> > Should it be /usr/share/icecast2/web/icecast.pem ?.
> 
> You certainly do not want to put your private key in your public
> webroot...
> 
Thanks Marvin. Is ok into any other directory, for example
/etc/icecast2/ssl ?.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > > ie: http://icecast.domain.invalid/somestringofletersnumbers.txt
> > > > That they 
> > > > request if its dumped in the webroot stuff of Icecast? With out
> > > > any
> > > > XSLT 
> > > > markup?
> > > 
> > > Icecast only processes XSLT files as XSLT.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > So if I added a listening port on 80 for this, then took it
> > > > away, 
> > > > since I don't use that for Icecast... Icecast is on its own
> > > > server
> > > > which 
> > > > does not have Apache... web stuff for other things is on its
> > > > own
> > > > box. I 
> > > > never have used the Icecast to server up anything other than
> > > > the
> > > > default 
> > > > admin etc. stuff it does by default...
> > > 
> > > To avoid the need to run Icecast as privileged user in oder to
> > > bind
> > > to
> > > low ports (if Comodo really insists in using port 80) you can use
> > > your
> > > firewall to do a local redirect.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hope this is of help to you,
> > > 
> > > with best regards,
> > > 
> > > 
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