configure OpenSSL to help gen certs for courier-imap [Solve]

[pcameron]

Hi all,

Im a noob and I was hoping I could get a little assistance.

I currently in the middle of building an email server running gentoo.

Im following the guide

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml

and all is going well.

i was attempting to generate a cert for pop3 and imap authentication as im planning on eventually opening up the server to the world for both smtp and imap but i want secure authentication.

I attempted to generate a cert, but it returned this error.

whitehills courier-imap # mkpop3dcert
Generating a 512 bit RSA private key
.....++++++++++++
....++++++++++++
writing new private key to '/etc/courier-imap/pop3d.pem'
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unable to find 'distinguished_name' in config
problems making Certificate Request
3073574568:error:0E06D06C:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no value:conf_lib.c:335:group=req name=distinguished_name

I found on

http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html

that I havnt configured openssl correctly (there is no config file currently setup), I have had a google around but im just not typing in the correct string or overlooking the page completely.

Could someone link me a page (preferably on the noob side) which could assist me in getting openssl setup and running on my system.

[pcameron]

ok, found the config file and the value its throwing back.

distinguished_name = req_distinguished_name

I assume the req is required. but what is a distinguished_name?

[pcameron]

Also what attributes would I pass?

attributes = req_attributes

[pcameron]

Lol,
i kept reading the config file and i think im seeing where im going wrong, will edit a few things and get back to u all.

Theres an entire req section missing all the info which I just did on courier-imap.

LOL

[pcameron]

Bump, figured it out.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251047