[CentOS] Creating your own CA and SSL certificates

Tue Aug 28 13:10:09 UTC 2007
Patrick <centos-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl>

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 09:03 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> Brian Mathis wrote:
> > I've been looking all over (google, wiki, manuals) for docs, and I
> > can't find any mention of how to set up a CA or certificates
> > *specifically for centos 5 / upstream 5*.  There are plenty of generic
> > guides on using openssl for this sort of thing, but I'd like to play
> > nice within the standard structure of this system.
> >   
> Consider getting TinyCA2 from rpmforge.
> 
> It more than does the job. In fact you can create your own root cert and 
> any number of server certs. then just the one root cert installed in 
> browsers will take care of all your TLS needs.

I looked at it but could not figure out what to do after creating the
CA. The app definitely would be of great help if there was a little bit
of documentation to go with it.

Regards,
Patrick