Creating a self-signed CA cert

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:31:23PM -0500, Steven Stromer wrote:
> >                                                                   I want 
> > to create a self-signed CA cert, which is most easily achieved using the 
> > ca.pl script. This is no longer anywhere to be found, along with the 
> > demoCA folder that one would normally expect to find. Can anyone shed 
> > some light on where these files ended up? I can't find them on a search. 
> 
> The perl script is in the openssl-perl package.  The original split was
> needed to keep the openssl package from depending on perl, which isn't
> part of the "Base" package component/group.
> 
> It looks like the generated data files would now be placed in /etc/CA,
> but of course that's configurable in openssl.cnf.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Nalin
It seems to me that certificates can be created using :
/etc/pki/tls/certs/Makefile
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Aaron Konstam
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