[CentOS] Ignorant question on SSL certs

Tue Mar 3 15:00:18 UTC 2015
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy Murphy
> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 9:55
> 
> I'm getting endless complaints about my dovecot cert,

Exact message please?

> /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
> which I created years ago following the dovecot instructions.
> 
> Do I really have to use a separate cert and key for dovecot?
> Can I not use the "standard" cert in /etc/pki/tls/certs (and key)
> from CACert.org ?

Post the certificate only, not the private key. That is the part between "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----" and "-----END CERTIFICATE-----". If you have a binary file, pipe it to 'openssl x509 -inform DER'

-Jason

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