Re: [HACKERS] Self-signed certificate instructions

On 04/15/2017 09:58 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> The instructions on how to create a self-signed certificate in s 18.9.3
> of the docs seem unduly cumbersome. AFAICT we could replace all the
> commands (except the chmod) with something like this:
>
>     |openssl req -new-x509 -days 365-nodes \ -text -outserver.crt\
>     -keyout server.key\ -subj "/C=XY/CN=yourdomain.name"|
>
> Is there any reason for sticking with the current instructions?
>

Argh. Darn Thunderbird. This should of course be:

   openssl req -new-x509 -days 365-nodes \       -text -out server.crt \       -keyout server.key \       -subj
"/C=XY/CN=yourdomain.name"


cheers

andrew

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