[ale] client certs for apache

Thomas Wood thomaswood at mac.com
Tue Mar 2 23:21:26 EST 2004


Just to clarify: are you trying to install 4 certs on 4 servers or 1 
cert on 4 servers and fool the connecting client into thinking 
https://server1 = https://server2.  Or am I totally misinterpreting 
your intent?

wood
On Mar 2, 2004, at 6:31 PM, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> I am stumped on how to properly do the following:
>
> 4 different web servers each with a ssl cert. 1 client cert that is
> accepted by each server as valid to access the ssl areas of the web
> sites hosted on each one.
>
> One server/one client cert is easy. Do some ssl foo to make a server
> cert and a client cert and sign the client cert with the server cert.
> Park server cert securely and tell httpd.conf where it is. Import 
> client
> cert into browsers.
>
> Do I need to set one machine as a CA, generate all certs for each 
> server
> on each individual machine, then sign each server cert by the CA cert?
> Then make a client cert from the CA cert?
>
> Too many really vague theory docs, not enough cookbook on this topic.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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