From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 12 20:51:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 818E837B409 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from typhoon.enabled.com (typhoon.enabled.com [216.218.220.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 214F343FB1 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:51:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from enabled.com (localhost.enabled.com [127.0.0.1]) by typhoon.enabled.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6D3pSaU009748; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:51:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) From: "admin" To: Kirk Strauser , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 19:51:28 -0800 Message-Id: <20030713035114.M15872@enabled.com> In-Reply-To: <87u19rje2r.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> References: <20030713030742.M58442@enabled.com> <87u19rje2r.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.01 20030425 X-OriginatingIP: 131.161.240.131 (admin2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: Re: SSL certificates and IE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 03:51:29 -0000 On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:33:16 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote > At 2003-07-13T03:10:37Z, "admin" writes: > > > I am now servering a certificate to web connections. Internet Explorer > > complains of the certificate not being issued by a trusted company. > > > > I am the CA for the certificate. What are ways I can modify the > > certificate so IE does not complain about this anymore? > > In a nutshell, you *aren't* a trusted company. That is, Microsoft doesn't > have a trust relationship with you. The only way to get IE (or > Mozilla, or Konqueror) to not complain about the CA when a person > first visits your site is to get it signed by a trusted authority. are there any free trusted authorities? - Noah > -- > Kirk Strauser