At 16:29 18.10.99 -0700, John Castillo wrote:

> probably a simple question...

and one that has been asked on this list recently, read the mailinglist
archive
(there should be a link to it somewhere at www.openssl.org)
  
> but I keep having to make dummy self signed certs because it keeps
expiring every > month (I'm too cheap to pay for a real one for a simple
fun project of mine).  How > can I set the expiration date on a self signed
cert.  For some reason, I the ones > I sign keep expiring after a month
exactly.

use the -days option of openssl when signing the certificate request. eg.
include
"-days 365" in the commandline string and the cert will expire only after a
year.

bye, Meike




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