[Kroupware] Cert not accepted by kmail

[Dieter Kluenter]

Hi,

Robin Green <greenrd at greenrd.org> writes:

> Hi
>
> We have installed kroupware for a client to get shared calendaring functionality.
> However it does not currently work, so we've disabled groupware functionality for
> now.

> This could be because the default certificate is self-signed. So I tried
> to create a dummy CA and use that to sign the certificate, according to
> not-very-clear instructions found on the web for apache and openssl.
> It's possible these instructions are out of date.
> However, now:
>
> 1. Kolab's apache and something else ask you for the password for the CA
> or something (it's not clear what!) on bootup. 
> This is stupid - whoever implemented this, what were they thinking?
> You're not supposed to wait for input from the user in init scripts, generally
> speaking, unless something really bad has happened like fs corruption.
> Also as I said it should identify what you are being asked to provide
> the password for. I appreciate this may be an apache issue rather than
> a kroupware issue.

You created a certificate without removing the password.
that is 'openssl rsa -in yourcert -out keycert'

-Dieter

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