Hello, I am positive that there is a perl module, there just has to be. I haven't used it though.
If you aren't exactly stuck on perl, you might have a look at the openssl functions in php: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.openssl.php Take care, Waitman Gobble EMK Design Telephone (714) 522-2528 Toll Free (877) 290-2768 http://emkdesign.com ....................................... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Patrick Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SSL cert & key generation on an appliance Hello, We're looking to deploy Linux-based security appliances that only provide the end-user with a web front-end. We want the end-user to have the ability to generate new (self-signed) certificates and SSL keys to be used on the appliance under Apache mod_ssl once installed. I'm betting somebody else has already solved this... how do you generate certs and keys without access to the interactive command line? Essentially, I'm looking for a shell script, some Perl, or another method to perform cert and key generation in an automated fashion, driven by input submitted by a user via the web. >From what I can gather with the cmd-line utilities provided by OpenSSL, interactive command-line access is required. If there's an easier way than wrapping the OpenSSL cmd-line utilities with Net::Telnet and IO::Pty, please tell me! Thanks, -Rob Patrick ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
