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Generating an SSL CSR and key

May 10, 2012 /

To generate an SSL certificate signing request (CSR) with key you can do this:

openssl req -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout bla.key -out bla.csr

This syntax does not force you to supply a password, which is convenient.

If you generate a CSR for startcom, you don’t have to fill in any fields; only the public key from the CSR is used. For other vendors, the common name is important; the domain name must be entered there.

Installing a commercial SSL certificate in Zimbra

April 12, 2011 /

Edit: now in 2020, with Zimbra 8, and Startcom out of business, things have changed a bit. So, here are the steps now, for a Sectigo certificate (and referring to their directory structure):

  • Copy ‘Linux/mail.example.com.ca-bundle’ to ‘/tmp/ca_bundle.crt’. Run ‘chown zimbra:zimbra /tmp/ca_bundle.crt’. (the name of the file suggests that your certificate is in the bundle, but it’s just the authority’s)
  • Copy ‘mail.example.com.crt’ to ‘/tmp/ssl.crt’ and run ‘chown zimbra:zimbra /tmp/ssl.crt’
  • Copy ‘mail.example.com.key’ to ‘/opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/commercial/commercial.key’ and ‘chown zimbra:zimbra /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/commercial/commercial.key’
  • ‘su – zimbra’ and then ‘/opt/zimbra/bin/zmcertmgr deploycrt comm /tmp/ssl.crt /tmp/ca_bundle.crt’
  • A restart may not even be necessary. My monitoring already started alerting me about the recovery before hand, but just in case, also as user zimbra: ‘zmcontrol stop && zmcontrol start’

Old post:

I installed a commercial (free) SSL certificate from Startcom SSL in Zimbra. I basically followed this, except the java keytool thing. I don’t know why that is necessary… I did this on Zimbra 6.0.10_GA_2692.UBUNTU8_64 UBUNTU8_64 FOSS edition.

  • Download the ca.pem and sub.class1.server.ca.pem (the CA for the free class 1 validation) to /tmp/
  • Cat the CA certs to form a single CA certificate chain file: cat ca.pem sub.class1.server.ca.pem > ca_bundle.crt
  • Place server certificate in /tmp/ssl.crt.
  • Place the private key in /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/commercial/commercial.key
  • Deploy the commercial certificate with zmcertmgr as the root user: /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcertmgr deploycrt comm /tmp/ssl.crt /tmp/ca_bundle.crt
  • Restart zimbra: su zimbra, then zmcontrol stop && zmcontrol start

Enabling authentication and SSL for Postfix on Debian

September 20, 2010 /

I used this document as main source. This blogpost is also useful.

First install libsasl2 and configure it. Enable it in /etc/default/sasl.

First make the sasl config file in /etc/postfix/sasl which says: 

pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN

Then configure the ssl paramters in postfix (the following is deprecated. See aforementioned official postfix docs for good way): 

# According to official docs, this should be in one pem file.
smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
# This should be smtp_tls_security_level = may, because use_tls is deprecated.
smtpd_use_tls=yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache
# I don't know if this one is also needed.
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache
# When TLS encryption is optional in the Postfix SMTP server, do not announce or accept SASL authentication over unencrypted connections. 
smtpd_tls_auth_only=yes

Then enable the three smtps lines in master.cf: 

smtps     inet  n       -       -       -       -       smtpd
  -o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes
  -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes

Then you need to do some hacking to get the jailed postfix to access /var/run/saslauthd: 

rm -r /var/run/saslauthd/
mkdir -p /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd
ln -s /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd /var/run
chgrp sasl /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd
# Add user postfix to group sasl
adduser postfix sasl

Then you should be good to go. Start all daemons.

Changing an apache virtual host to ssl

September 7, 2010 /

To change a virtual host in apache to ssl: 

#Redirect all normal traffic to the https site.
<VirtualHost *:80>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R]
</VirtualHost>
 
# This virtual host was *:80 first
<VirtualHost *:443>
   DocumentRoot /bla
   # If I don't specify this, nagios's check_ssl_cert doesn't work.
   ServerName www.joho.com
 
   # These lines were added to make it SSL
   SSLEngine on
   SSLCertificateFile    /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
   SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
   # if you have an official certificate, also add some of these:
   SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/ssl/certs/bla
 
   <Directory /bla>
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
      AllowOverride None
      Options -MultiViews FollowSymlinks Indexes
   </Directory>
 
</VirtualHost>

Generating key and certificate for courier-imap

September 4, 2010 /

To create a self-signed certificate for courier-imap: 

openssl req -new -x509 -days 3650 -nodes -out imapd.pem -keyout imapd.pem

This will create a pem file with key and certificate in it. When asked for the common-name, enter the FQDN.

Don’t forget to specify the maildir path correctly in the imapd-ssl config file, as well as some other config parameters that are duplicated for imapd-ssl.

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