SSL

[Jonathan Furrer]

Yeah, thats a perl module, just go get it at:

http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/S/SA/SAMPO/Net_SSLeay.pm-1.05.tar.gz

if you need instructions there should be some in the source. In the end
you **may** need to copy the module over manually.


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Jonathan Furrer
jonny@jofu.com

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, der.hans wrote:

> Am 25. Jun, 2000 schwäzte Don Harrop so:
> 
> > I've been playing with a program called webmin for a couple of months now
> 
> webmin's actually pretty cool.
> 
> > but I haven't been using it on a production machine because of security
> 
> Make it avaialble only to localhost, then use ssh and lynx.
> 
> > reasons.  It now supports SSL so I've been playing with that a little more
> > too.  I've used mainly RPM distrobutions to install openSSL and openSSH but
> > I couldn't get another component called Net::SSLeay installed with those
> 
> Net::SSLeay is probably the perl module. Your dist should have RPMs for
> the various perl libs.
> 
> What dist are you using? Maybe someone can tell you what to search for.
> 
> > RPM'ed versions.  I got the .tar.gz files and compiled them.  I've got
> > webmin working through SSL too but it pop's up with a security warning about
> > the name of the security certificate not matching the name of the site.  I
> > don't want to go out and buy a certificate.  Can't I generate my own?  Also
> 
> Yes. It'll work if you trust yourself :). Anybody else who would use it
> would also have to set their browsers to trust your certificate
> authority. Hopefully that shouldn't be too many people for webmin :).
> 
> > the openSSH that I compiled won't run the sshd daemon.  It complains that it
> > can't find a file called ssh_host_key.  Am I supposed to generate this key?
> 
> Yup. See the SSH links off http://home.pages.de/~lufthans/unix/ for more
> info in setting up SSH. The how to get started has what you're looking
> for.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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