Hi Matthias, Thanks for your input. Yes you are right, so hard to find the gendummycerts manual.
Regards Willy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthias Subik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Willy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:29 PM Subject: Re: SSL over Apache [Step by Step] > > On 06.04.2006, at 05:19, Willy wrote: > > > > > ... > > # openssl genrsa -des3 -out hostname.key 1024, during this step you > > will be prompted to enter your passphrase, please note that you > > must remember it! > there is the cause why the service httpd freeze! > no passphrase, then the httpd service script can read the key alone ... > > > ... > I use > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ which gendummycerts > /usr/bin/gendummycerts > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/gendummycerts > apache-2.0.55-5tr > > and let me quote from the wiki (not changed since august), > > ---last-paragraph-from-http://www.trustix.org/wiki/index.php/ > Apache_with_SSL--- > Working with self-signed certificates > > You can also use "gendummycerts" to get a self-signed test certificate > > ---- > I know you tried hard, and had a hard time getting all that done, but > the solution was already there, on your hard disk, unfortunately > there isn't too much docs about gendummycerts, but as always in the > unix world: use the source. a simple > more /usr/sbin/gendummycerts > would have revealed the way and the place to have working certificates. > > I hope you don't have such a steep learning curve next time. > > matthias > _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
