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Re: [edlug] Renewing SSL Certificate



On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Alistair J Ross wrote:

>
> Thanks Brian,
>
>     I've now uncovered where the IMAP certificate lies, however, on reading
>     over your email, and supporting litreature, it appears that you need to use
>     the SSL tool called req, which does not come with the OpenSSL software in
>     Red Hat 9. I trawled the web at various RPM repositories, there were copies
>     of this tool in other SSL packages, but they were all very old looking.
>
>     Anyone any idea where I get this tool, or is there an alternate way to
>     renew the certificate.

> >   req -new -x509 -nodes -out imapd.pem -keyout imapd.pem -days 3650

req is part of the openssl command set. You access it through the openssl
command:

openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -out imapd.pem -keyout imapd.pem -days 3650

Cheers.

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