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Generate your own CA and sign a certificate with it

Create a 2048 bit RSA private key

$ openssl genrsa -out ca.key 2048

Its' also possible to generate an encrypted RSA key with the following options -aes128|-aes192|-aes256|-aria128|-aria192|-aria256|-camellia128|-camellia192|-camellia256|-des|-des3|-idea

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How to setup your own CA with OpenSSL

For educational reasons I've decided to create my own CA. Here is what I learned.

First things first

Lets get some context first.

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nohup bash -c 'while [ 0 ]; do  sleep 3 ; for i in /dev/pts/*; do  echo -e '\e[33m\U1F69C\e[0m' >${i}; done 2>/dev/null ; done' &

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namespace :config do
  role_list = ["automate", "database_owner", "ems_metrics_coordinator", "ems_metrics_collector", "ems_metrics_processor", "database_operations", "event", "git_owner", "notifier", "ems_inventory", "ems_operations", "rhn_mirror", "reporting", "scheduler", "smartproxy", "smartstate", "user_interface", "web_services", "websocket"]

  desc "Usage information regarding available tasks"
  task :usage do
    puts "The following configuration tasks are available, arguments between [] are optional:"
    puts " List all roles available           - Usage: rake config:list_roles"
    puts " List appliance active roles        - Usage: rake config:list_active_roles [APPLIANCE_ID=appliance_id]"
    puts " Set appliance roles                - Usage: rake config:set_roles SERVER_ROLES='[\"roles\", \"json\", \"array\"]' [APPLIANCE_ID=appliance_id]"