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Re: Sendmail, TLS, and incorrect hostname



On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:57:19PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote:
> I recently added SASL and TLS support to my SMTP server. Looks to be 
> working great, with one exception. My certificate was generated with the 
> local hostname, instead of the proper FQDN (hostname was the common name 
> of the machine, I need a cert for "smtp", since that's how my users 
> connect). Result is that users configured for TLS get a warning that 
> hotnames don't match.
> 
> I've started digging through the OpenSSL docs. Looks like all I need to 
> do is regenerate the certificate interactively, and specify the desired 
> hostname, overriding the default. Problem is, I'm not sure about any 
> other switches I'll need.
> 
> Is there a "Debian-way" to do this nice and cleanly? Has anyone else run 
> into (and solved) the issue?

I'm not sure of an exact answer, but there is a 'mksslcert' program in
Debian...I can't seem to find which package it's from, right now, but
http://packages.debian.org/ will be able to tell you.

-- 
Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org>				http://ertius.org/

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