Open Source certificate authority?

[Philip J. Koenig]

On 6 Oct 2002 at 15:51, David A. Bandel boldly uttered: 

> On Sun, 06 Oct 2002 13:39:01 -0700
> begin  "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist at ekahuna.com> spewed forth:
> 
> > I'm looking for the simplest possible way to generate an X.509 
> > certificate. (specifically, I have a piece of network hardware which 
> > supports SSL, but which requires the user to import their own 
> > certificate and I don't feel like paying for one.  Validation of the 
> > certificate by a 'legit' CA is not an issue in this case)
> > 
> > There is a project called "openCA" but it seems somewhat complicated 
> > and I can't find any RPMs out there.
> > 
> > So I was looking at this "tinyCA" thingy, but I can't tell if it has 
> > everything I need to create a certificate.  Does anyone have 
> > experience with this?  Can I create certificates with just this, perl-
> > tk, and OpenSSL?
> > 
> > http://tinyca.sm-zone.net/
> 
> The latest tinyCA is _exactly_ what you need, and it's all graphical (Perl
> w/ the Tk Perl module -- and a few others).


Thanks very much for that info - now to my next problem. :-)

I'm trying to install Perl-tk on COL 3.1.1.  I'm following the 
"manual" install instructions located in the root of the tarball.

So I do "perl Makefile.PL" , everything seems to work fine. (I tried 
it again later explicitly specifying the X11 directory, no change)

Then I do "make", no obvious errors.

Then when I try to do "make test", lots of stuff fails.  Chief among 
them being that I have no authorization to talk to the X-server.  

Typical error:


> t/zzTixGrid.........Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> couldn't connect to display ":0" at blib/lib/Tk/MainWindow.pm line 55.


So I did a little searching on the comp.lang.perl.tk group, some 
people suggested I use "xhost".  Well I tried that, no joy there 
either (I'm running as root):

> # xhost +localhost
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to server
> xhost: unable to open display ":0.0"


Another suggestion on the newsgroup was to modify the "DISPLAY" 
variable.

I suspect this is a simple problem.. can anyone point me in the right 
direction?

Thanks,

Phil


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Philip J. Koenig                                       
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