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Re: Sendmail, TLS, and incorrect hostname



On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 08:42:40AM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 04:14:22PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:57:19PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > > 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.
> I suggest to read the mod_ssl and openssl faq, they are quite generic for
> those issue.
>  
> > > 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.
> 
> After some digging I think you mean those two here:
> 
> sven@arthur:~$ zgrep sign.sh /tmp/Contents-i386.gz 
> usr/share/doc/libapache-mod-ssl/examples/sign.sh	    web/libapache-mod-ssl
> 
> sven@arthur:~$ zgrep makesslcert /tmp/Contents-i386.gz 
> usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/makesslcert.sh			    admin/linuxconf

Hm, that's odd, I'm fairly sure I've never had linuxconf installed.  Oh
well.  I'm fairly sure the mod_ssl docs tell you how to use OpenSSL to
create your certs anyway.

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

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