Backmeup Keyserver

Backemup Keyserver provides a secure storage for personal keys.

Requirements

To build and run the Keyserver on your system you need Apache Maven 3.x, a servlet container and a database system. We recommend the following:

• Apache Tomcat 7.x
• PostgreSQL 9.3.x

Additional dependencies will be resolved and loaded from Maven. Have a look at pom.xml.

Configuration

Before starting the Maven build we have to check and if necessary adjust various configuration files. pom.xml. Check the properties section and change the settings if necessary. It is very likely that you have to adjust the properties <config.database.url> and <config.tomcat.manager.url>.

src/main/ressources/keyserver.properties

Adjust the file paths.

src/main/webapp/META-INF/context.xml

Adjust the database settings.

src/test/resources/integrationtests.properties

Adjust the settings that are used for the integration test. The settings refer to the deploy keyserver.

PostgreSQL

First, you have to create a database user (with the name dbu_keysrv):

CREATE USER dbu_keysrv WITH PASSWORD 'xxx';

Second, import the database schema. The script can be found in src/main/sql/db-keyserver-schema.sql. Create a new schema or use an existing one (default name: db_keysrv) and execute the script on it. Use the command line client (psql) or pgAdmin.

Tomcat

Configure access to the manager application. In the file tomcat-users.xml add roles for manager-gui and manager-script and add a user:

<tomcat-users>
  <!-- ... -->
  <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
  <role rolename="manager-script"/>
  
  <user username="xxx" password=" xxx " roles="manager-gui,manager-script"/>
</tomcat-users>

Maven

Authentication information (username/password) from the pom-file is hidden in the Maven settings file (settings.xml). The pom-file specifies two keys (backmeup.keyserver.postgres, backmeup.keyserver.tomcat) that have to match the credentials configured in the steps above (PostgreSQL, Tomcat):

<servers>
    <!-- ... -->
    <server>
      <id>backmeup.keyserver.tomcat</id>
      <username>xxx</username>
      <password>xxx</password>
    </server>

    <server>
      <id>backmeup.keyserver.postgres</id>
      <username>dbu_keysrv</username>
      <password>xxx</password>
    </server>
</servers>

Build & Deploy

We use Apache Maven to build the project. Important Maven goals:

mvn package

Generate war file that can be deployed to the servlet container.

mvn verify

Generate war file, deploy it and run the integration tests.

Tests (unit and integration tests) can be skipped with the flag –DskipTests.

If you want to deploy and verify the Keyserver to a remote system, you can override the properties of the pom-file and the settings in the properties-files:

mvn -Dconfig.database.url=jdbc:postgresql://remote-host:1234/db_keyserver -Dconfig.tomcat.manager.url=http://remote-host:8080/manager/text -Dbackmeup.keyserver.baseuri=http://remote-host -Dbackmeup.keyserver.port=8080 -Dbackmeup.keyserver.basepath=/backmeup-keyserver clean verify

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License

Backmeup Keyserver License