Snakeoil Key Generation and Common Name

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Sat May 17 20:32:34 UTC 2008


Jorge Luis wrote:
> I'm doing a fresh install of Hardy over Gutsy, formatting all
> partitions.  The snakeoil keys that are generated during the
> installation are picking up the Common Name from an old bogus domain
> name that I used in an earlier installation.  I need the snakeoil keys
> to reflect my new fqdn.
>
> Where is openssl picking up the old information?  Remember, this is a
> clean install with everything formatted.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>   
    You can't update Gutsy if you format the hard drive. This is just a 
clean install of Hardy then. Where the old things come from is a 
mystery. What did you use to format the partition?

Karl


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