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Re: [edlug] Renewing SSL Certificate
Perhaps a simple "man openssl" would have been. "req" is a sub-command
of openssl... It's what Brian said too - "you might need to stick
openssl in front"!
L.
Alistair J Ross writes:
>
> 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.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alistair Ross
>
> Brian Campbell Said (bacam@xxx.xxx.xxx):
>
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:21:40PM +0100, Alistair J Ross wrote:
> > >
> > > What,
> > >
> > > reinstall Red Hat 9?
> > >
> > > Surely a better solution must be found!
> >
> > At a rough guess
> >
> > http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/imap-2001a-18.i386.rpm//usr/share/doc/imap-2001a/SSLBUILD?extract=true
> >
> > is probably what you're looking for. [With a local copy presumably in
> > /usr/share/doc/imap-2001a/SSLBUILD]
> >
> > Digested form:
> >
> > req -new -x509 -nodes -out imapd.pem -keyout imapd.pem -days 3650
> >
> > in the right directory (you might need to stick openssl in front of
> > that). Sounds about right from what I've done with openssl before.
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