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Create a ssl certificate

Asked by pucko in Linux, Payment Processing Recommendation and Integrating

Tags: certificate

Can someone guide me to how to create a self-signed certificate-athority
to use with my pops-server.

From my documentation of the imap package I get:

STEP 3: certificates setup

NOTE: We can NOT provide you with support in obtaining certificates.  If you
need help in doing this, try the contacts mentioned in the OpenSSL README.

     You must set up certificates on /usr/lib/ssl/certs.  You should install
both the certificate authority certificates from the SSL sources, plus your
own certificates.  These should have been purchased from a certificate
authority, although self-signed certificates are permissible.  A sample
certificate file is at the end of this document.

     Install the IMAP certificate on /usr/lib/ssl/certs/imapsd.pem and the
POP3 certificate on /usr/lib/ssl/certs/ipop3sd.pem.  These files should be
protected against random people accessing them.  It is permissible for
imapsd.pem and ipop3sd.pem to be links to the same file.

     If you have a multihomed system with multiple domain names (and hence
separate certifications for each domain name), you can append the IP address
to the service name.  For example, the IMAP certificate for [12.34.56.78]
would be /usr/lib/ssl/certs/imapd-12.34.56.78.pem and so on.  You only need
to use this feature if you need to use multiple certificates.

 
But I don't know how to create the self-signed certifficate.

Can someone give me a step-by-step instruction?
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