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server certificate management - change email address?

Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:05 pm
by linux42
Is there a way to update a server certificate and change the email address that is stored in the certificate?

I have OpenVPN working just fine with a CentOS server and a couple of clients [CentOS and XP]. The email address that was put into the server certificate was an end user address. I'd like to change it to a generic task based address like keymgmt@xxxxxx.com. Is it possible to update the server certificate/key without having to regenerate all of the client keys?

Re: server certificate management - change email address?

Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:28 am
by krzee
no
it is signed by the CA as-is
to be able to change it at all without re-signing by ca would be a problem