if you want to examine the cert, use:
ssleay x509 -text -in your.cert
If you want to generate a linked hash, do:
ln -s your.cert `ssleay x509 -noout -hash < your.cert`.0
cheers,
Adam
Todd B. Acheson wrote:
>
> I am attempting to get a verisign certificate.
>
> I received instructions (included below) from verisgin and I generated
> a CSR and received a certificate.
>
> However I cannot find the "getca" or "getversign" programs or commands
> that they reference to extract the Server ID. I have SSLeay 0.81 and
> 0.90b.
>
> Verisign is no help in the matter.
>
> -----
> 1. VeriSign will have sent you a certificate in the mail. This will look
> something like the following:
> -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
> JIEBSDSCEXoCHQEwLQMJSoZILvoNVQECSQAwcSETMRkOAMUTBhMuVrM
> mIoAnBdNVBAoTF1JTQSBEYXRhIFNlY3VyaXR5LCBJbmMuMRwwGgYDVQ
> QLExNQZXJzb25hIENlcnRpZmljYXRlMSQwIgYDVQQDExtPcGVuIE1hc
> mtldCBUZXN0IFNlcnZlciAxMTAwHhcNOTUwNzE5MjAyNzMwWhcNOTYw
> NTE0MjAyOTEwWjBzMQswCQYDVQQGEwJVUzEgMB4GA1UEChMXUlNBIER
> hdGEgU2VjdXJpdHksIEluYy4xHDAaBgNVBAsTE1BlcnNvbmEgQ2VydG
> lmaWNhdGUxJDAiBgNVBAMTG09wZW4gTWFya2V0IFRlc3QgU2VydmVyI
> DExMDBcMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA0sAMEgCQQDU/7lrgR6vkVNX40BA
> q1poGdSmGkD1iN3sEPfSTGxNJXY58XH3JoZ4nrF7mIfvpghNi1taYim
> vhbBPNqYe4yLPAgMBAAEwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQECBQADQQBqyCpws9EaAj
> KKAefuNP+z+8NY8khckgyHN2LLpfhv+iP8m+bF66HNDUlFz8ZrVOu3W QapgL
> PV90kIskNKXX3a
> ------END CERTIFICATE-----
> 1. Copy the entire certificate, including the begin certificate and end
> certificate lines into a text editor such as Notepad (do not use Word or
> another word processing program.) Make sure that the certificate appears as
> formatted above. In other words, make sure that the begin certificate and
> end certificate lines are by themselves.
> 2. Secure Server ID PRIVACY-ENHANCED message to a temporary file, such as
> /tmp/cert.tmp.
> 3. Run getca and specify both the name of the server that owns the ID and
> the name of the temporary certificate file. For example: # getca hostname <
> /tmp/cert.tmp
> 4. In some versions of SSLEAY, you should use the command getversign instead
> of getca
> 5. This saves the Secure Server ID to the file SSLTOP/certs/hostname.cert
> 6. Remove the temporary file. For example: # rm/tmp/cert.tmp
> 7. Restart the server.
>
> ----------------------
> Todd Acheson
> 740 593-0034
>
> acheson@ohiou.edu
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