How do I sign a Certificate Request?

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Quick not to myself since everytime I spend hours in searching it again. The command line is: openssl x509 –req –in <path>/<certificate_request>.csr  –signkey <path-to-CA-private-cert>/CA-private-cert.pem –out <path-to-certs-repository>/signed-cert-name.pem Hopefully next time I do not have to search it again hours and hours ;) Naturally this command required to ...

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How to check if LDAPS is really running on a server?

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Sometimes this is necessary since the server “appears” to be running (netstat -an|grep 636 returns port in LISTEN state, but the daemon behind is not operative because (for instance) the certificate has not been installed. If this is the case, grab an openssl client and issue the following command: ...

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Apache VirtualHost and Certificates for HTTPS

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

I've finally managed to get this working, so now I need to write some note in case I have to redo it in the future :) This is short howto about enabling https and multiple virtual hosts on Apache 2.0. Much of the instructions are copypasted from Debian ...

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