[CentOS] Creating your own CA and SSL certificates

[Patrick]

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 20:42 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 02:34 +0200, Patrick wrote:
> > I spent a couple of hours today trying to figure out how to make self
> > signed certs such that browsing to https://localhost would show the page
> > without complaining about not knowing the CA that issued the site's
> > certificate. If you bump into the solution I would appreciate it if you
> > could reply to this thread.
> 
> You need to import your self-sign CA cert into the browser. Other than
> that (and editing the source, of course) you can't make the browser not
> complain; the whole point of the complaining is that your browser
> doesn't know about the CA and so can't trust them.

Hi Ignacio. Off course you are right. I accidentally mixed up the two
things I was looking at today: svn with https via self signed cert
without complaining (or else websvn fails silently) and accessing a
webpage via https. Sorry for the noise.

Regards,
Patrick