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  • Luke has a script

/home/sysadmin/certs/requests/generate.sh

To use it, add the name www.aoe.vt.edu or mail.aoe.vt.edu as an argument

./generate.sh mail.aoe.vt.edu

Answer the questions with the defaults, except the last question does not have the answer. It is either

www.aoe.vt.edu
mail.aoe.vt.edu

To examine the request

openssl req -text -noout -in bacchus.aoe.vt.edu_2011-03-21_web_req.csr

Submit the CSR's (which are the .pem files??) on

http://www.pki.vt.edu/subscriber/ssl_certificate.html

there's a link on it for the form.

Fax a form

Get the certificates

copy the certs and keys to the proper locations as indicated in the conf files.

mail server

/etc/mail/cert

defined in:

/etc/mail/sendmail.mc
  define(`CERT_DIR',`/etc/mail/certs')
  define(`confCACERT_PATH',`CERT_DIR')
  define(`confCACERT',`CERT_DIR/cacert.pem')
  define(`confSERVER_CERT',`CERT_DIR/cert.pem')
  define(`confSERVER_KEY',`CERT_DIR/key.pem')
  define(`confCLIENT_CERT',`CERT_DIR/cert.pem')
  define(`confCLIENT_KEY',`CERT_DIR/key.pem')

Web Server

/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/
/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/

defined in:

/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf
  SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/www.aoe.vt.edu_2005-12-14_web_key.pem
  SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/www.aoe.vt.edu_2005-12-14_web.cer
  SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/ca.c

Restart httpd

service httpd restart

It will complain if the files are not found!

aoe/digitalcertificates.txt · Last modified: 1970/01/18 07:09 by 127.0.0.1