[CentOS] Creating your own CA and SSL certificates

Tue Aug 28 00:42:07 UTC 2007
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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