I have done this, according to http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html, part 1B (generating your own CA):
a) create a CA authority (ca.key and ca.crt)
b) make a certificate request (server.csr)
c) sign the certificate request (server.crt and server.key) with the new CA authority
d) change the server key so it does not ask for a passphrase.
Afterwards, the server.crt and server.key files are included in /usr/share/fred-client/ssl directory, and the fred-client configuration file is modified like this:
ssl_cert = %(dir)s/server.crt
ssl_key = %(dir)s/server.key
Now, if I try to run fred-client this is the result:
ERROR: socket.sslerror: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:480: error:14094418:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:tlsv1 alert unknown ca (200.107.82.18:700)
Certificate not signed by verified certificate authority
What should I do for fred-client to identify these certificates as valid?.
Thanks in advance.
Note: the new fred-client is perfectly compatible with FRED 2.2.
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Mario Guerra <mguerra(a)nic.cr>
Jaromir,
Just one or two more clarifications on FRED:
1. Is there a default maximum number of years (or months) for renewing a domain ?
I see that in .cz this is required to be 10 years - is this burned into FRED or can it be
modified?
See: https://www.nic.cz/files/nic/doc/Registration_rules_CZ.pdf
Regards,
Paulos
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Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
http://www.registrar.mw
People:
A nagging problem we had when we migrated FRED to Ubuntu 14.04 (until a
couple of weeks ago we ran 2.22 on Ubuntu 12.04) was that, suddenly,
Apache connections gave us a CLOSE_WAIT, not a clean closing of the
connection. This gave us a real headache with both our whois server and
our EPP server.
The solution?. Well, simply uninstall the mpm_event Apache module and
install the mem_prefork one:
a2dismod mpm_event
a2enmod mem_prefork
service apache2 restart
I hope this helps the people using FRED under Ubuntu 14.04 experiencing
a similar problem.
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Mario Guerra
NIC-CR