On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 06:17:04AM -0400, Pete Morris wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 06:28:22PM +0900, Richard Gananathan wrote:


> 
> I started a thread on the bbs, 
> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=32049 but have gotten no 
> responses, so I'm also interested in a solution. 

Here's my page which tells you how to generate the certs--however, it
doesn't go through the whole procedure, since, as I said, I didn't take
it that far.

http://www.scottro.net/qnd/qnd-gmail.html 
In a nutshell, generate your key and self signed cert

openssl genrsa -out privekey.pem 2048
openssl req -new -x509 -key privkey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 1095

I found I had to put the lines
tls_cert_file /usr/home/scottro/cacert.pem
tls_trust_file /usr/home/scottro/cacert.pem  
tls_key_file /usr/home/scottro/privekey.pem  

Then, the error I got was that it was unable to check the server's
certficate which is when I googled a bit more, found out I'd probably
have to download the VeriSign stuff and said the heck with it.  

If I left out the trust file, I'd get an error--these are complete paths
but on a FreeBSD, not an Arch box, so for Arch users you would leave out
the /usr part. 


-- 

Scott Robbins

PGP keyID EB3467D6
( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6

Anya: You know, you can laugh, but I have witnessed a
millennium of treachery and oppression from the males of the species,
and I have nothing but contempt for the whole libidinous lot of them.
Xander: Then why are you talking to me?
Anya: I don't have a date for the prom.

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