I too bought the Mandrake 6.0 secure server, and found that the config file was not in the rpm. I e-mailed customer support and they gave me a list of sites to download it from. It turned out I had a usable file already from a download, and that has worked fine. Don't they test these packages before mailing off thousands of CD sets? -- David Robinson Oracle DBA wrote: > I have taken on the ambitious project of trying to get a secure > server up and running by the end of the week. Now I know I won't have a real > certificate by the end of the week. But I would like to beable to create a > request for a certificate from a CA by the end of the week. In general I > like to figure things out by RTFM. However in this case I can't find a > complete manual, f'ing or otherwise. > > I purchased the Secure Server Edition of the Linux Mandrake 6.0 put > out by Macmillan publishing. First of all generating certificate requests > according to their instructions does not work. Secondly their support had not > only proven to be unsupportive, but it has been a complete waste of time. > "Well it works for me." is the responce I keep getting. > > So yesterday I down loaded openssl from some site in Sweden. I have > a similar problem with both the version that came with the Macmillan > distribution and the one that I downloaded. The Macmillan distro looks for > a file called ssleay.cnf in /etc, and openssl RPM looks for openssl.cnf in > /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf. Problem is neither file exists. Infact, the > /usr/local/ssl directory doesn't even exist. I got some kind person > to e-mail me a copy of openssl.cnf, but since I got it out of the blue > I would like to know a little more about it before I use his copy. I have > looked in vain for something that defines what is in the cnf file, and can't > find it. What if anything do I need to edit in the openssl.cnf file? I > would feel more confortable using said file if I could go down load it > from some known entity other than a subscriber to this list, but that might > not be possible. > > Is the RedHat secure server more "freindly" than the Macmillan one? > Please somebody help me. :-) > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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