Topic: Unexpected message from my server

[qazsew]

My SME server 6.01 has been up and running for more than a year. I regularly log into my webmail from different sites. Today I got this message from the server:

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/etc/cron.daily/conf-mod_ssl:

2985 semi-random bytes loaded
Generating RSA private key, 1024 bit long modulus
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e is 65537 (0x10001)
Using configuration from /usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf
You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
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Country Name (2 letter code) [GB]:State or Province Name (full name) [Berkshire]:Locality Name (eg, city) [Newbury]:Organization Name (eg, company) [My Company Ltd]:Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:Email Address []:

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I never saw this before. What is happening?

Regards
Erik

[raem]

I'd like to know too.

[jackl]

qazsew

Recently while logging on to Webmail I used Firefox to examine the default cert on some of my sme servers and noticed that they are only valid for a year.(Look under details and then validity) Perhaps this is the cause of your server response? Perhaps the cert needs to be renewed? Somebody who has a server running more than year without upgrades may be able to rule this out. Don't really know too much on this subject but like Ray, I would like to know.

Jackl

[qazsew]

The cert is probably not it. The people who use webmail always get the question if the certifier is trusted, and we clikc yes and move forward. A few times I have installed the cert in the browser (a long time ago), but I never got this message anyway.

I just want to be sure that this could not be an effect of someone trying something nasty with the server from the Internet.

Regards
Bodolf

[CharlieBrady]

Recently while logging on to Webmail I used Firefox to examine the default cert on some of my sme servers and noticed that they are only valid for a year.(Look under details and then validity) Perhaps this is the cause of your server response?

The message tells you that a new certificate was generated. The previous one had expired.

[qazsew]

Oh, of course! Thank you.

Bodolf