Slashdot Mirror


Apache+LDAP Auth and OpenCA Self-signed Cert Tutorial

groundhog00 writes "Posted recently from was an Apache + Basic authentication and self-signed digital certificates article. I thought people might find interest in doing a more scalable solution using parts of the PKI structure with mod_auth_ldap and Apache to communicate with an OpenLDAP server to get basic scalable authentication AND digital certificates using OpenCA as the your homegrown certificate authority. Here are some documents for setting up the certificate authority and getting certificates installed using Internet Explorer 5.x and Netscape 4.x browsers. There will be LDAP configurations for Apache soon, but this is a pretty decent set of documents to start with."

2 of 10 comments (clear)

  1. CmdrTaco - US Flag Desecrator & Anti-Delewaria by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As noted on the Smithsonian Institution's site, the first official American flag had thirteen stars and thirteen stripes, each representing one of the thirteen original states.

    The flag icon for Slashdot's 'United States' section is missing its first stripe - the stripe that represents Delaware, the first state admitted to the Union. While a simple oversight could be forgiven, it should be known from here on out that Slashdot is in fact aware of the missing stripe, and even worse, refuses to do anything about it!

    This vulgar flag desecration and rabid anti-Delawarism must be put to a stop. Let the Slashdot crew know that we will not accept a knowingly mutilated flag or the insinuation that Delawarians deserve to be cut out of the union. I ask you, what has Delaware done to deserve this insolence, this wanton disregard, this bigotry?

  2. Re:CmdrTaco - US Flag Desecrator & Anti-Delewa by tps12 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Wow, you're right. 6 red, 6 white. And Taco won't change it without a big fight.

    Maybe someone should write a patch?

    --

    Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)