2011-08-19.

Generating a self-signed ssl certificate, without password.
A reminder for next time.


## the following worked nicely, 2008-08, for a new apache ssl cert Gentoo)

cd /etc/apache2/ssl/  

openssl genrsa -des3 -passout pass:1a1a -out server.key.tmp 1024

openssl req -new -passin pass:1a1a -passout pass:1a1a -key server.key.tmp -out server.csr -days 1200

openssl req -x509 -passin pass:1a1a -passout pass:1a1a -key server.key.tmp -in server.csr -out server.crt -days 1200

openssl rsa -passin pass:1a1a -in server.key.tmp -out server.key

chmod 400 server.*

/etc/init.d/apache2 stop

/etc/init.d/apache2 start