[Dovecot] self-signed certificates
Benjamin
hering at luck-n-load.de
Wed Mar 8 08:34:34 EET 2006
Hallo,
i'm having troubles installing self-signed certificates for dovecot.
After installing, dovecot generates a key and cert. But he is using the
wrong common name (where does dovecot get this name from?). I tried
deleting them and installing a handcrafted cert with this:
openssl genrsa -out mail.key 2048
openssl req -new -key mail.key -out mail.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 4312 -in mail.csr -out mail.cert -signkey mail.key
after that i tried to update the dovecont.conf to point to the new
files. But dovecot refuses to read them, i allways get an error, that
dovecot can't read the certificate file.
With dpkg-reconfigure dovecot-common, dovecot generates new ones, and
they are working fine, but have the wrong common name.
Thanks in advance
Regards Benjamin
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