Can anyone that has successfully created a self-signed SSL Cert (without using any certificate authority, including CACert.org) for use with Jive Messenger please post a step-by-step command entry from start to finish, specifying what tools are used?
I am having alot of difficulties. The documentation doesn’'t appear to work, at least for me, and every change I make seems to damage my server install. The help everyone in the forums has given has been great, but I think I need that specific hand-hold on this.
I am willing to completely wipe out Jive Messenger and my MySQL DB configuration and start from scratch if needed.
I know SSL seems to get a lot of questions on the boards here. Hopefully if anyone here contributes this, it could help everyone.
I drove myself crazy for 3 days trying to figure this one out. You may or may not have the same problem as me, but here is what I experienced.
Changing the default keystore password from changit ended up being the culprit. This broke and still continues to break the SSL auth to our server every time. Non-secure would still work though.
So the workaround I have currently is leaving the password as-is. Any answer as to how to change the password without breaking connections via SSL would be great.
I have already modified that through the administrator. That really belongs with another post I made earlier today. I am really looking for some straight instructions on how to do this properly.
I would appreciate an updated step-by-step HowTo, too. I’‘ve read the existing ssl-guide 100 times, I’‘ve read all the postings which are dealing with importing certificates, and still no go. I guess I’'m too dumb for that?
After changing the default keystore password I’'ve tried to change the keyEntry password as well - but how you can do that the right way?
doesn’‘t seem to work, it complains about the fact that I try to submit the same password as for the keystore…I wonder what’‘s the correct syntax? When I just change the keystore-pwd, the SSL-site remains empty, SSL doesn’'t start at all (of course).
My setup now is the same as jivers: “changeit” is the keystore- and keyEntry-pwd, I’‘ve imported my own certificate with keytool, then I’'ve removed the John Doe - certificate.
How can I/we change the appropriate passwords now?
It sounds like this is something that a few people are looking for. If someone were to jot these steps down. I would gladly write up “official documentation” to go to the project team for the website.
Open Source documentation is one of the few places a non-programmer like myself can help.