Installing own ssl-certificates

admin2 at kjh.de admin2 at kjh.de
Wed Jan 9 13:12:20 CET 2008


Hallo

Thanks for your help, it worked fine for me.

Günter



Quoting "Andrew J. Kopciuch" <akopciuch at bddf.ca>:

> On January 7, 2008, admin2 at kjh.de wrote:
>> Hallo
>>
>> I get an an ssl-cert from a third party authority. I get a ssl.key, an
>> ssl.cert and i give them a Pass Phrase like i do in the bootstrap
>> process, but its a new one.
>>
>
>
> OK ...
>
> This means you are using an encrypted key ... which is why it asks for the
> passphrase all of the time.   What you will want to do is create a decrypted
> copy of the key (with no passphrase) and use that one in the apache configs.
>
> openssl rsa -in ssl.key -out ssl.key.decrypted
>
> And use ssl.key.decrypted in the configs (apache, postfix, IMAP, LDAP etc)
>
> <optional (rename the file to what you want)>
> mv ssl.key ssl.key.encrypted
> mv ssl.key.decrypted ssl.key
> </opttional>
>
>
> You can read more here :
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html
>
>
>
>
> Andy
>





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