[fab] Fwd: Re: [Fedora-sysadmin-list] ssl cert for admin.fedora.redhat.com

[Mike McGrath]

On 9/6/06, Patrick W. Barnes <nman64 at n-man.com> wrote:
> Even if we try to hold off for now, we're eventually going to need
> certificates for fedoraproject.org, preferably by a CA that is already
> recognized by the more common browsers.
>
> I would personally like to see us get a certificate for "fedoraproject.org"
> (no subdomain), make "www.fedoraproject.org" a CNAME to "fedoraproject.org",
> and put all content that we need under SSL within
> the "https://fedoraproject.org/" namespace, using reverse proxies if
> necessary, and not on subdomains.  People with a great deal of experience
> with DNS and SSL should understand my technical reasons for this, but it's
> also the cheaper way to go.
>
> --
> Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
> nman64 at n-man.com
>

IIRC we were working to do this but we were going to try to use some
service like cacert.org instead of a verisign.  Personally I don't
care what we use but from a technical point of view we can get this up
and running as soon as we get the cert.

          -Mike