McAfee MEJCAE-AM-DA Product Guide - Page 14
Getting Started, Setting up E-Business Server, Setting the location of E-Business Server files
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3 Getting Started Setting up E-Business Server This chapter describes where E-Business Server files are located on your machine. It also explains how to start the E-Business Server program and how to enter information on the command line. Setting the location of E-Business Server files E-Business Server needs to know where the following files are located: • Your keyring files. E-Business Server stores your key pair in two files: the public portion is stored in pubring.pkr and the private portion in secring.skr. If you add another user's public key to your keyring, it is stored in the public portion of the keyring. The files are created when you run E-Business Server for the first time. Specify the path to your keyring files using the PUBRING (see PUBRING on page 102) and SECRING (see SECRING on page 103) parameters in the E-Business Server configuration file. • The random number seed file. E-Business Server uses the data in the random seed file (randseed.rnd) when it generates session keys. randseed.rnd is created when you run E-Business Server for the first time. Specify the path to the random seed file using the RANDSEED parameter (see RANDSEED on page 103) in the E-Business Server configuration file. (See the book, An Introduction to Cryptography for more information on the role of session keys when using E-Business Server.) • The E-Business Server groups file. E-Business Server stores any groups you create in the file pgpgroup.pgr. Groups are like email distribution lists-you use groups to create a list of recipients for your encrypted information. Encrypting information to the group encrypts the information to every key in the group in one operation. pgpgroup.pgr is created when you run E-Business Server for the first time. Specify the path to the groups file using the GROUPSFILE parameter (see GROUPSFILE on page 97) in the E-Business Server configuration file. • The E-Business Server configuration file. E-Business Server stores a number of user-defined parameters in the configuration text file pgp.cfg. A configuration file enables you to define flags and parameters for E-Business Server, eliminating the need to define these parameters at the command line. The E-Business Server configuration file is created when you run E-Business Server for the first time. You can specify the path to the E-Business Server configuration file using the environment variable PGPPATH (see PGPPATH on page 12). PGPPATH PGPPATH is an environment variable that identifies the location of your E-Business Server configuration file. Syntax SET PGPPATH= Notes You can also specify the location of the E-Business Server configuration file using --pgppath from the command line. If you use the command line, you must specify both the path and the filename. This option is especially useful to CGI developers who can't set environment variables. E-Business Server™ 8.6 Product Guide 12