[Box Backup] Certificate question

[Justin H Haynes]

Thanks a lot.  My friends and I are really eager to get this working.   
Boxbackup really has a niche and nothing else is filling it.  I've needed  
this solution for quite some time.  Thanks so much for doing this project.

-Justin

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:11:47 +0100, Ben Summers <ben@fluffy.co.uk> wrote:

>
> On 27 Oct 2004, at 09:00, Justin H Haynes wrote:
>
>> I hope to accurately outline my ignorance by giving enough  
>> information.  I am having a problem getting my certificate signed.   I  
>> don't know which piece I don't understand.
>>
> [snip]
>>
>> I get this:
>> Unable to match 'BACKUP-0' against any domain validated against your  
>> account.
>>
> [snip]
>> Well, I have Justin@Haynes.net verified with cacert.org as well as  
>> haynesj@mechanus.org.  So, I'm not sure what is going wrong.  I'm  
>> assuming I need to leave in the banners when pasting that text.  Also,  
>> I'm assuming cacert is picking up the certificate since it identifies  
>> it at BACKUP-0.  I dont' understand what it is looking for.  Does it  
>> expect an email on file to be in the form of username@hostname?   
>> sigil.mechanus.org is behind NAT and only resolves to a private IP  
>> address.  should I tell bbackupd-config the hostname is mechanus.org  
>> since that does resolve via DNS and because I have haynesj@mechanus.org  
>> and not haynesj@sigil.mechanus.org (see my bbackupd-config command  
>> above where I used sigil.mechanus.org as the hostname, which is  
>> accurate on that machine) ?
>
>
> Box Backup uses it's own CA. (Unless you install the appropriate  
> certificates from another CA, but if you do that you're on your own.)
>
> The bbstored-certs script on the server allows you create the CA and  
> sign server and client certificates. See
>
>    http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/accounts.html
>
> for more details, ask for help here if you have problems. Follow the  
> instructions on the web page and that bbstored-certs outputs carefully,  
> and it will work.
>
> Ben
>
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