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Re: Using the SSL snakeoil certificate



On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:24:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> For example:
> 
>   Dovecot uses </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem>.
> 
>   This is a symbolic link to </etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem> if
>   the above file or link does not exist during configuration of
>   dovecot.
> 
> That way, the admin can easily replace the symlink with a real
> certificate if they want per-service certificates.
> 
> If, however, they want to have one real certificate for everything,
> they can replace the snakeoil certificate like Martin Pitt proposed.
 
Sorry if I misunderstand something, but is it okay to call it snakeoil
if it is real certificate? I like to say that the symbolic links for
per-service certificate shouldn't point to something called snake-oil.

Just my opinion.



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