[CentOS] Creating your own CA and SSL certificates

[Kenneth Porter]

On Monday, August 27, 2007 5:19 PM -0400 Brian Mathis 
<brian.mathis at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've found the /etc/pki directory, but can't find much information
> about it.  I reviewed the openssl.cnf file, and it looks like it's not
> completely set up, as many directories it references do not exist on
> the system.

A good place to start is /etc/pki/tls/certs/Makefile.

I've just started using CentOS5, migrating from Fedora, so I'm not yet up 
to speed on the relocation of OpenSSL from /usr/share/openssl to 
/etc/pki/tls, but that Makefile is mostly what I used to create self-signed 
certs, or I used variations of the commands it suggested.