Certificate

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Security Certificate

To configure a SSL certificate for TLS and/or SSL over SMTP:

  1. Abstract: Create Certificate
    Generate key
    Generate signing request
    Sign the key
    Create server certificate
    Set permission
    Set owner
    Copy into place
    Restart services
  2. Self-Signed Certificate
    1. openssl genrsa -out x.key 2048
    2. openssl req -new -key x.key -out x.csr
    3. openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in x.csr -signkey x.key -out x.crt
    4. cat x.crt x.key > servercert.pem
    5. chmod 644 servercert.pem
    6. chown root:qmail servercert.pem
    7. cp -p servercert.pem /var/qmail/control