Fellow Monks,

I want to write a Perl application to manage several servers from a unique management console. Of course, communication between the management console and the servers must be encrypted.

What I want to do is to write a daemon, that is binded to an arbitrary port, and write a client that connects to.

My problem is about authentication : how can I be sure that only my management console can connect the daemon, and which Perl module should I use for that.

I have thought about using IO::Socket::SSL, but it seems to be done, like SSL anyway, to manage easily one server and several clients, and what I want is to have one client (my management console) and several managed servers. Of course, I could have one different certificate per manager server, but that is not the Clean Way To Do It (C)...

Eventually, I'd like an SSL-encrypted connexion with a SSH-like key (RSA) authentication...

Any idea or module or pointer ?


Many thanks

--
zejames

In reply to Management console encrypted connexion by zejames

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