Re: using own CA certs with various clients

2001-10-18 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:46:15PM -0700, Zachary Denison wrote: > My question is how can I prevent these messages, how > can I get the client software to trust our own CA > cert. On the web I searched and someone said to make > a pkcs12 client cert.. anyway I tried that in a number > of ways and

using own CA certs with various clients

2001-10-17 Thread Zachary Denison
Hi, I am using openssl to secure a number of services in my organization: http, imap, smtp, ldap etc... For our internal servers we have been able to generate CA certs with openssl and sign our own certificates and all the services work great, EXCEPT the client software always complains that the

Re: using own CA certs with various clients

2001-10-17 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 07:06:15AM -0700, Zachary Denison wrote: > Thank you all for posting solutions.. It was just a > matter of importing the rootCA into the client. On my > systems (outlook and netscape), I just needed to > import the rootCA and then it stopped complaining > about all certs si

Re: using own CA certs with various clients

2001-10-17 Thread Zachary Denison
it as a Security Certificate, > when i double click, I get > > " Windows does not have enough information to > verify this certificate " > > > > Any way I'm lost... I've gotten this far and > it's really bugging me > > now... > > >

RE: using own CA certs with various clients

2001-10-17 Thread Steve Barnes
D] Subject: Re: using own CA certs with various clients sorry, I was unclear - the client needs BOTH the server cert and your CA cert. what i did was i puts the certs in a shared directory... and then each machine that wanted them just double clicked on the CA.cer and server.cer ... done... cheer

Re: using own CA certs with various clients

2001-10-17 Thread Oliver Bode
presented browser and add some javascript to help send the cert straight to the clients browser. - Original Message - From: "Sunil Dangwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 7:50 PM Subject: Re: using own CA certs with v

Re: using own CA certs with various clients

2001-10-17 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Windows does not have enough information to verify this certificate " > > Any way I'm lost... I've gotten this far and it's really bugging me > now... > > Can anyone help...????? > > -Original Message- > From: Sean O'Riordain [mailto

Re: using own CA certs with various clients

2001-10-17 Thread Sunil Dangwal
rtificate, when i double click, I get > " Windows does not have enough information to verify this certificate " > > > Any way I'm lost... I've gotten this far and it's really bugging me > now... > > Can anyone help...? > > > > >

RE: using own CA certs with various clients

2001-10-17 Thread Steve Barnes
#x27;ve gotten this far and it's really bugging me now... Can anyone help...? -Original Message- From: Sean O'Riordain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 October 2001 09:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: using own CA certs with various clients under windows 2000 (and nt4 afaik) with

Re: using own CA certs with various clients

2001-10-17 Thread Sean O'Riordain
under windows 2000 (and nt4 afaik) with outlook 2000 and IE5 (don't know if works for "less" than this) you can install the certificate in each client by hand quite easily... if the file name has ending ".cer" then windows appears to recognize it and calls it "Security Certificate"... double click

Re: using own CA certs with various clients

2001-10-17 Thread Haikel
Hello, I think you have to install the CA certificates in your client browser. I know two techniques you can use: your client can download your CA certificate from you web site ( you need to use the mime type application/x-x509-ca-cert in your httpd.conf file) or you can generate, for each on