[Fedora-directory-users] Create client SSL certificates for Solaris boxes.

[James Chavez]

Hello,

I am having a bit of difficulty creating SSL client certificates for my
Solaris boxes or client boxes in general.

What I am trying to accomplish is to use TLS with simple authentication
i believe. I want to log into my Solaris boxes authenticating to FDS but
have it done over a secure TLS/SSL connection so the passwords cannot be
intercepted. I successfully created ther root CA certificate and Server
cert on the FDS box using the beautiful setupSSL script.

However I am new to SSL and I am having a difficult time understanding
what needs to be done on the client side machines to get SSL working
correctly. I know I need to import and trust the Root CA certificate on
each client. But what about creating a client certificate for each of my
Linux and Solaris clients? Can the client certificates be created and
exported on the server that I created the Root CA cert on? And from
there can I just import them into the clients? I have read the NSS tools
links regarding PKI and SSL but I am still having a bit of difficulty.

On the FDS wiki documentation site there are some good links but I am
not sure how to go about this to use TLS:simple authentication.

Thank you
James 

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