{"id":588,"date":"2012-05-08T15:38:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T22:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yan.lalife.net\/?p=588"},"modified":"2026-01-20T05:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:07:43","slug":"setup-ssl-for-mysql-replication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lalife.net\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Setup SSL for MySQL replication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MySQL replication is setup already. Now I need to add SSL so the communication between server and client will be secure.<\/p>\n<p>1. generate CA certificate and server key\/cert on Master<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CA certificate<br \/>\n    openssl genrsa 2048 > ca-key.pem<br \/>\n    openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -days 1000 -key ca-key.pem -out ca-cert.pem<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Server Key\/Cert<br \/>\n    openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -days 1000 -nodes -keyout server-key.pem -out server-req.pem<br \/>\n    openssl x509 -req -in server-req.pem -days 1000 -CA ca-cert.pem -CAkey ca-key.pem -set_serial 01 -out server-cert.pem<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>2. enable SSL on master<br \/>\n   add  the following to both [client] and [mysqld]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ssl-ca=\/var\/lib\/mysql\/ssl\/ca-cert.pem<br \/>\n   ssl-cert=\/var\/lib\/mysql\/ssl\/client-cert.pem<br \/>\n   ssl-key=\/var\/lib\/mysql\/ssl\/client-key.pem<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>3. generate client key\/cert on Slave<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -days 1000 -nodes -keyout client-key.pem -out client-req.pem<br \/>\n   openssl x509 -req -in client-req.pem -days 1000 -CA ca-cert.pem -CAkey ca-key.pem -set_serial 01 -out client-cert.pem<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>4. enable SSL on slave<br \/>\n    repeat 2, but on slave server and using keys\/cert of slave, restart db with skip-slave-start<\/p>\n<p>5. start slave<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>mysql>change master to master_host=&#8217;masterdb&#8217;, master_user=&#8217;repliuser&#8217;,      master_password=&#8217;pass&#8217;,master_log_file=&#8217;db1-bin.xxxxx&#8217;, master_log_pos=98, MASTER_SSL=1, MASTER_SSL_CA=&#8217;ssl\/ca-cert.pem&#8217;;<br \/>\n    start slave<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>6. setup User permission to use SSL only<br \/>\n   User &#8220;GRANT&#8221; to setup user allow SSL connection only<\/p>\n<p>Check if SSL is on in mysqld<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>mysql> show variables like &#8216;%have_ssl%&#8217;;<br \/>\n+&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;+&#8212;&#8212;-+<br \/>\n| Variable_name | Value |<br \/>\n+&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;+&#8212;&#8212;-+<br \/>\n| have_ssl      | YES   |<br \/>\n+&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;+&#8212;&#8212;-+<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check if Client is using SSL:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>>mysql<br \/>\nSHOW STATUS LIKE &#8216;Ssl_cipher&#8217;;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MySQL replication is setup already. Now I need to add SSL so the communication between server and client will be secure. 1. generate CA certificate and server key\/cert on Master CA certificate openssl genrsa 2048 > ca-key.pem openssl req -new &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalife.net\/?p=588\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lalife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lalife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lalife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lalife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lalife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lalife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"http:\/\/www.lalife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lalife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lalife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lalife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}