SSL certificates

[Anthony Tibbs]

Kevin,

I wondered about the passphrase myself.  The instructions GoDaddy 
provides are, of course, tailored for Apache, and maybe they think 
entering a passphrase is a reasonable thing to have to do, though I 
can't imagine what server admin would actually want that.

I'll dump the passphrase and try again.  I would bet that is the culprit...

- Anthony

On 01/03/2011 8:22 AM, Kevin Kobb wrote:
> On 2/28/2011 9:44 AM, Anthony Tibbs wrote:
>> Good morning,
>>
>> I've been running Cyrus at a couple of small sites since 2001 or so.
>> I've run into a snag trying to setup SSL using something other than the
>> self-signed, auto-generated certificate. The domain has a GoDaddy
>> 2048-bit SSL certificate. From the SSL manager, one downloads a bundle
>> that contains a certificate chain bundle, and a separate file with the
>> certificate for the domain itself.
>>
>> The key and CSR was generated with:
>>
>> openssl genrsa -des3 -out xxx.key 2048
>> openssl req -new -key xxx.key -out xxx.csr
>>
>> I've seen a few different methodologies posted about how to install
>> this. One is to conctenate the domain certificate, the certificate
>> chain, and the private key into one .pem file and set tls_cert_file,
>> tls_ca_file, and tls_key_file to point to the same '.pem' file. Another
>> is to keep the files completely separate.
>>
>> No matter what I have tried, I've been unsuccessful. Thunderbird reports
>> that it received an SSL record that is too long, and/or the imapd
>> process becomes stuck at 100% CPU utilization until it is killed forcibly.
>>
>> Is there something I'm missing on this?
>>
>> - Anthony
>>
>>
>>
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> Couple of things you might look at. First, I think you need to drop the
> -des3 option when you create the private key. Do something like:
> openssl genrsa -out xxx.key 2048 instead. Otherwise, you wind up with an
> encrypted private key that needs a pass phrase every time you start the
> server. I didn't think Cyrus would even start with a key like this.
> Apache is about the only thing I've used that would prompt you for a
> pass phrase on start up.
>
> To remove the key pass phrase you can do something like:
> openssl rsa -in xxx.key -out xxx.key.nopass
>
> I haven't used GoDaddy certs for a while because you had the extra
> hassle of dealing with intermediate certificates, and I can get
> single-root certs cheaper. That being said, I believe all you should
> need to do is cat the signed cert and the intermediate cert together,
> and use this for the tls_cert_file: value in imapd.conf. Point the
> tls_key_file: value to your private key, and that should do it.
>
> This is all off the top of my head and a sick child meant I only got
> about 3 hours of sleep last night, so please make copies of everything
> before trying any of this!
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