Re: [CentOS] SSL: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, M. Fioretti wrote:

Right now I am rebuilding a new certificate on the server, byt I am setting my.vps.fqdn.name in openssl.cnf as CommonName_default and running the provided CA Perl Script. This would have the same effect as your command line option below, wouldn't it?

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You'll probably want to build a new cert, specifying the CN as the public hostname of your IMAP server, e.g.,

openssl req \ -x509 -nodes -days 365 \ -subj '/C=IT/L=Roma/CN=my.vps.fqdn.name' \ -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout mycert.pem -out mycert.pem

Yes, it should.

The nice thing about using the -subj option is that it allows you to skip all the interactive question/answer silliness.