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Certificate authority

[Panel V. <vp...@ax...>]

What am I supposed to do with the "Webmin Certificate Authority" ? An =
interesting key-pair has been generated but there is no module allowing =
you to sign certificate requests and generate such requests. Is it a =
feature that is planned in the future versions of webmin ? (A mini-CA =
module ?)

Vincent Panel.

Re: Certificate authority

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

> Panel Vincent wrote:
> 
> What am I supposed to do with the "Webmin Certificate Authority" ? An interesting key-pair has
> been generated but there is no module allowing you to sign certificate requests and generate such
> requests. Is it a feature that is planned in the future versions of webmin ? (A mini-CA module ?)
> 
> Vincent Panel.

Once you've setup a certificate authority, you can go into the Webmin Users module
and request a client cert for the current user. Once it is stored in your browser, you can
login to webmin without needing to supply a username and password - instead, the client
cert is used for authentication.

Unfortunately, this only works with netscape at the moment ..

 - Jamie