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Failed to sign CSR with the CA root key

I'm trying to implement Mutual Certificate Authentication , I have to be the CA and server at the same time , generate certificates and sign them for users. and I'm following this tutorial which is a ...
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Session terminates immediately after authentication

I have a RedHat 5.3 server with several regular users created. Since last Friday the user "xpto" is getting "Authentication failed" error messages. Tha account isn't locked out. I have reset the ...
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keeping keys on an auxiliary removable drive

It seems that servers are only as secure as the machine that holds the keys and that in turn means the desktop/screensaver password is the line of defence for not only the desktop itself but any ...
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How do I restore authentication for Debian Lenny synaptic package manager?

My neighbor calls me to fix things when his cats walk on his keyboard and cause problems that he can't fix. This time it happened while he was running synaptic package manager. After the reload, ...
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User authentication over Dante proxy server

Below is my Dante SOCKS Proxy server configuration that I connect to without any authentication: internal: eth0 port = 53200 internal: 127.0.0.1 port = 53200 external: eth0 clientmethod: none ...
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LDAP on openSUSE

I'm trying to run an LDAP server on a openSUSE 12. But I have a couple of doubts. What I whant is this: testing.com with 2 OU (Info and People ). So the right way would be ou=Info,dc=testing,dc=com. ...
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How to protect my anonymity and authenticity in Irc?

I use irssi for playing multiplayer/programming game with random people. Some people take the game a bit too seriously so I want to protect my identity in it. I do not want that someone misuses my ...
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How to setup proxy authentication in the Debian shell?

I think that once I used export http_proxy=http://user:password@address:port/ successfully. But now when I use wget it shows Error parsing proxy URL http://user:passwordaddress:port/: Bad port ...
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How to send mail from a remote SMTP host?

I have Postfix suite installed locally on Ubuntu 10.10. I can send/receive mail to my local address, e.g. user@local.com. I'm given credentials to a remote mail server mailbox, e.g. ...
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Configure SSL Mutual (Two-way) Authentication

I was asked to do it "Configure SSL Mutual (Two-way) Authentication" and I don't know where to start or how to test it . server and many clients . they can access code on server only if they have a ...
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Where does Samba 4 store user passwords?

Where does Samba 4 store user passwords? How can I import my password hashes from Samba 3 in Samba 4? I am using my own LDAP server with samba 3, and the password hash is stored within the ...
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SSL handshake failure with Shibboleth

I am using Shibboleth for single user authentication and it needs a ssl configuration which facilitates the user authentication process. Before it was working fine but now I am facing a SSL handshake ...
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SMTP Auth - SASL on Dovecot, Postfix and CentOS 6.2 (and Open-Xchange)

I am trying to get open SASL to work on CentOS 6.2. I followed this tutorial: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix_sasl I suspect it works perfectly for CentOS 5.x so all I really need is an update ...
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Git-SVN Not Allowing Me to Authenticate

Git 1.7.9.1 on Arch Linux: git svn init -s https://app.svn.beanstalk.com/repo Initialized empty Git repository in /path/to/repo/.git/ Authentication realm: ...
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“No PostgreSQL user name specified” - possible concurrency issues?

For my dissertation I'm running the same cronjob on around 300 machines, which is: 10,25,40,55 * * * * /path/to/db_script.sh 1>/dev/null This script gets some values from the system (whether ...
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How to obtain X.509 certificate on solaris based server?

I have a Solaris based T5220 server. I'd like to install an x.509 certificate. What is the procedure to install this certificat? Does that procedure differs from one server to another? i.e. is it ...
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What does sudo su work but su does not? [duplicate]

I have tried this on Fedora and on Ubuntu. kshitiz@kshitiz:~$su su: Authentication failure kshitiz@kshitiz:~$sudo su root@kshitiz:/home/kshitiz# I am entering the same password in both the cases. ...
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How to authenticate a user with PAM, that is not the user that started the application

I'm currently developing an authentication module for an application. The decision was made to do this by using PAM. I have made this work but it can only authenticate the user that started the ...
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apt-get update and package authentication

Sometimes when you try to apt-get install a program, you get a warning message about how some packages couldn't be authenticated. Doing an apt-get update will sometimes fix the problem, but sometimes ...
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Unable to login to my server using ssh

Yesterday I was migrating to my new server, needed to use rsync, I created a RSA key, so that rsync could connect, I saw an error that says add to trusted key in location x I didn't have that location ...
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What strings should I look for in /var/log/auth.log?

I wrote a bash command to scan /var/log/auth.log for messages occurring on the current day indicating unauthorised access. Currently it just fetches messages matching BREAK-IN and unauthorized. What ...
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Missing configuration in Apache to achive mutual SSL authentcaion

After implementing a Mutual Certificate Authentication with OpenSSL and Apache Web Server on CentOS platform, I tried this scenario (see this diagram): ---------- ...
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How to determine the sequence of ordering certificates by browser?

I did a Mutual Certificate Authentication implementation with OpenSSL and Apache Web Server on CentOS platform. To simple explanation see this diagram: ---------- | ...
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certificate extensions in generating and signing certificartes using openssl

References : SSL Configurations for Intermediate certificate How to add my own created certificate authority to system trusted repositories Why I can't find a page which tell me what's the kinds ...
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Where to put generated certicate for user [duplicate]

I was following this tutorial and I want to implement mutual authentication between server and client, where server and CA (certificate authority) is the same thing. I reached the last step and I ...
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Need help configuring Fedora client authentication for 389 server with Kerberos

Trying to setup kerberos authentication with 389-ds and having trouble figuring out how the two fit together. Here is my setup: A CentOS 6 VM (centos01) where I setup bind, 389 ds, and kdc services ...
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How can I setup auth/winbind to prefer local accounts over AD even if the account is in both systems?

I seem to have an interesting account/permissions problem on my RHEL 6 server. We migrated from a RHEL 3 installation and I moved over /etc/shadow,passwd,and groups so that we can maintain all of our ...
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Password protect my website on Centos + Kloxo [closed]

I have Centos 5.6 deployed along with Kloxo. Now I want to password protect my website. It means user has to provide uid/pwd to login (like this: ...

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