snakeoil.dom !?!?!?

[Rich]

Ok!

What gives? I decided to try the build in https support of directadmin. This is really cool, however the certificate has some strange credentials:

E = ca@snakeoil.dom
CN = Snake Oil CA
OU = Certificate Authority
O = Snake Oil, Ltd
L = Snake Town
S = Snake Desert
C = XY

Ok, I know this is a 'freebie', but couldn't the certificate be something a bit less, well a bit more respectable sounding? It really smells like a hack of some sort.

I guess we can tell our users to just ignore this, or pay for a real certificate?

Will this ever be changed to something less fishy smelling? Or will the certificate ever go away?

Plus it shows an expiration date of 10/20/2001.

Just wondering, but I did get a chuckle out of it.

[Joe]

I'm asking over at the DA forums how to get this corrected.

Joe

[muttdog]

Originally posted by Joe@Nov 16 2003, 09:33 PM
I'm asking over at the DA forums how to get this corrected.

Joe
SSL certificates are linked the IP i believe... That causes an interesting problem... Since we all have the "same" ip...

[Joe]

Yeah, I'll be making it "privatelabeldns.com" when I can figure it out.

[Rich]

Thanks! Anything but 'snakeoil'! :)

Even something like "reliablehosting.dom" or "multihosts.dom" I'm sure you can come up with something better than snakeoil!

[Rich]

Hi Joe,

Have you found out any more about the 'Snake'?

[Rich]

I Guess we're stuck with the snake for this year :)