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  1. Certificate Authority
  2. ---------------------
  3. CA Certificate is placed in /etc/ssl/certs/ and name closely to CN of
  4. organisation ( s/ /_/g ) appended "_CA.crt".
  5. CA Key is located in /etc/ssl/private/ named similarly appended
  6. "_CA.key".
  7. Certificate is symlinked to "/etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem" for easy
  8. locating by scripts.
  9. Hosts
  10. -----
  11. Host certificates are placed in /etc/ssl/certs/ either named by the
  12. service they provide appended ".pem", or symlinked with that name from
  13. hostname.key or whatever makes best sense in the situation, either with
  14. the key embedded or the key at the same place.
  15. The script /usr/share/local/localmksslcerts can be used to make
  16. self-signed certificates with embedded keys.
  17. Users
  18. -----
  19. Have a look at this web page:
  20. http://www.cise.ufl.edu/help/secure-access/ssl-mail-setup.shtml
  21. The script is at /usr/share/local/mycert - adapted to Debian GNU/Linux.