Hi. No John, please don't delete RH's /etc/bi/openssl from the default install. RH did something "weird", there are dependencies there and they look for RH's version of openssl. The best you can hope for is to install a parallel version of OpenSSL. I brought this up with Simon a few emails ago but he uses Suse
John Turner wrote: > > Reason #942 not to just take "defaults" when installing Red Hat Linux. > You're better off deleting all of their "auto" crap and then installing > what you need from scratch. At least then you know exactly where > everything is. > > John > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi. > > Unbelievable, I searched all the servers for openssl.conf and found > > nothing. Some of these are stock standard default installatio sraight > > from the distro CDs from RH. > > I am going to install OpenSSL from sratch this weekend and ditch RH's > > distro copy. > > find /usr openssl.conf -type f > > find /usr -name openssl.conf > > etc... > > Nope. > > I mean, when you configure these things, the sey parametric values have > > to go somewhere, right ? > > That does it, download, compile, install OpenSSL this weekend. Ouch! > > > > > > > > Simon Pabst wrote: > > > >>I don't know about Redhat's openssl installation, > >>but propably it spreads over several directories. > >> > >>However there should be an openssl.conf somewhere, > >>maybe its in /etc/openssl.conf or /usr/local/openssl/openssl.conf > >> > >>If you can't find it, this might help: > >>find /etc -name openssl.conf > >>or > >>find /usr -name openssl.conf > >> > >>Installing openssl from source would also help getting a > >>clean (and more secure) openssl installation with everything in one directory. > >> > >>And don't mix up Apache2 ssl.conf with openssl.conf, they've got nothing to > >>do with each other. > >>In Apache 1 all the SSL stuff was in httpd.conf, in Apache 2 they just put > >>that into conf/ssl.conf. > >> > >>At 19:22 25.07.2003 +1000, you wrote: > >> > >>>Hi. > >>>Thanks, I got EngelSchall's sign.sh. I am going through exactly those > >>>doco as we "speak", I think the problem with the documentation is that > >>>they refer to dfferent versions than mine. > >>>On my default RH7.1 Linux installation, I do not have /usr/local/ssl or > >>>/etc/ssl/openssl.conf, yet it comes well equipped with > >>>/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt ad /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key. > >>>On the other hand, the Apache2 httpd.conf uses an Include conf/ssl.conf > >>>which doesn't look like the instructions on the documentation. I am so > >>>confused, I need a beer. > >>>Soooo, I won't be finishing the task this week. > >>> > >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
