Please improve documentation on generating SSL certificates

[David Ayers]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs

It would be great of someone could improve the documentation on generating SSL certificates for common use cases. Currently the text:
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/certificates-and-security.html
Instead of:"It will prompt you enter the passphrase. If you enter the correct passphrase, it will prompt you to enter Company Name, Site Name, Email Id, etc. Once you enter all these details, your CSR will be created and it will be stored in the server.csr file. "
I would suggest:"It will prompt you enter the passphrase. If you enter the correct passphrase, it will prompt you to enter Company Name, Site Name, Email Id, etc. Enter the corresponding data depending on the usage of the certificate. For example SSL certificates would typically expect the host name as the Common Name. Once details are entered, your CSR will be created and it will be stored in the server.csr file. "

It would also be greate if someone with more experience could also add (links? notes?) on how certificates for VPN's or libvirt TLS are generated.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ubuntu-docs 10.10.4ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 19 00:26:42 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_AT.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-docs

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

The Ubuntu Documentation team has moved the serverguide out of the ubuntu-docs source, it is now under the serverguide project. Moving this bug accordingly.