On 2/28/2011 9:44 AM, Anthony Tibbs wrote: > Good morning, > > I've been running Cyrus at a couple of small sites since 2001 or so. > I've run into a snag trying to setup SSL using something other than the > self-signed, auto-generated certificate. The domain has a GoDaddy > 2048-bit SSL certificate. From the SSL manager, one downloads a bundle > that contains a certificate chain bundle, and a separate file with the > certificate for the domain itself. > > The key and CSR was generated with: > > openssl genrsa -des3 -out xxx.key 2048 > openssl req -new -key xxx.key -out xxx.csr > > I've seen a few different methodologies posted about how to install > this. One is to conctenate the domain certificate, the certificate > chain, and the private key into one .pem file and set tls_cert_file, > tls_ca_file, and tls_key_file to point to the same '.pem' file. Another > is to keep the files completely separate. > > No matter what I have tried, I've been unsuccessful. Thunderbird reports > that it received an SSL record that is too long, and/or the imapd > process becomes stuck at 100% CPU utilization until it is killed forcibly. > > Is there something I'm missing on this? > > - Anthony > > > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ Couple of things you might look at. First, I think you need to drop the -des3 option when you create the private key. Do something like: openssl genrsa -out xxx.key 2048 instead. Otherwise, you wind up with an encrypted private key that needs a pass phrase every time you start the server. I didn't think Cyrus would even start with a key like this. Apache is about the only thing I've used that would prompt you for a pass phrase on start up. To remove the key pass phrase you can do something like: openssl rsa -in xxx.key -out xxx.key.nopass I haven't used GoDaddy certs for a while because you had the extra hassle of dealing with intermediate certificates, and I can get single-root certs cheaper. That being said, I believe all you should need to do is cat the signed cert and the intermediate cert together, and use this for the tls_cert_file: value in imapd.conf. Point the tls_key_file: value to your private key, and that should do it. This is all off the top of my head and a sick child meant I only got about 3 hours of sleep last night, so please make copies of everything before trying any of this! ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
