I agree on the "lack of documentation" thing. I'm a newbie, using Linux since July of last year. I have come to the conclusion that the documentation for Linux, especially the newer stuff, has falling badly behind - if it existed in the first place. I feel lucky that SuSE has at supplied some of the best docs available ( and this mail list) that aren't necessarily written for people with Comp sci/engineering degrees. I check the LDP site and find that much of it is out of date by 2 or in some case 3 version. Much of it is of little use. If it's hard for an experienced or veteran user think about us poor dumb newbies. It can get awfully confusing. There are packages and programs on my machine that I could probably make good use of. The problem is: A) finding info or docs about it, and B) what it's really used for once you get a doc about it. since the doc is usually a short snip about command line options. I wish there was a book I could get for my version, but usually I have to wait a minimum of 6+ months for a decent book to be published and by then the next version has been released and half of the OS is different. Just my 2 cents. Curtis Rey On Sunday 27 May 2001 11:47 pm, Bill Jones wrote:
Probably off-topic, but I need to rant anyways:
I do not see where nor any How-To on the procedure for installing my own self-signed certificate. I even did a new tarball d/l from OpenSSL's site itself:
OpenSSL 0.9.6a 5 Apr 2001 built on: Mon May 28 00:19:23 EDT 2001 platform: linux-sparcv9 options: bn(64,32) md2(int) rc4(ptr,char) des(idx,cisc,16,long) idea(int) blowfish(ptr) compiler: gcc -DTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -mcpu=ultrasparc -DB_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wa,-Av8plus -DULTRASPARC -DBN_DIV2W -DMD5_ASM
It was successful, as was: /usr/ssl/misc/CA.pl -newca /usr/ssl/misc/CA.pl -newreq /usr/ssl/misc/CA.pl -signreq /usr/ssl/misc/CA.pl -pkcs12 "InSecurity.Org"
I suppose my real issue is I wish I knew what I was doing more than just the 'trial and error' development approach...
Thx for listening; -Sneex- :]
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