SSL - Dirk-Jan's log

Manual SCOM agent certificate signing

The SCOM Linux agent (scx) uses a SSL certificate to trust communication between the SCOM server and Linux agents. The SCOM server communicates with the agent running on port 1270/tcp. Normally you will deploy the agent by using the discovery wizard. The SCOM server initially makes a SSH connection

Linux

vsftpd and SSL

This howto describes how to configure vsftpd to enable SSL using so called intermediate/ chaining certificates. Edit vsftpd.conf so that SSL is enabled: ssl_enable=YES rsa_cert_file=/usr/share/ssl/certs/vsftpd.pem force_local_data_ssl=NO force_local_logins_ssl=NO It is very important

Linux

eToken, Personal certificate and the Mozilla suite

Recently I have a personal certificate also known as a Digital ID on a smart card (Aladdin eToken) to access a secure web service. While installing the certificate I noticed it is also possible to use it to digitally sign and encrypt email with the same certificate, so I fired

CAcert

Secured by CAcert

In oder to secure this personal website I have recently joined the CAcert community. This community driven certificate authority issues free public key certificates. After signing up I created two server certificates, one for the webserver and the other one for secure mail and ldap services. So if you are