[asterisk-dev] [Code Review] Add a contrib script for generating certs for TLS stuff

Klaus Darilion klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at
Fri Oct 22 02:15:47 CDT 2010


Terry Wilson wrote:
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> Review request for Asterisk Developers.
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> Summary
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> After suffering through yet another fun day of setting up TLS certs for asterisk, I figured I'd knock out a quick script so I don't ever have to do it again.
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> Diffs
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>   /branches/1.8/contrib/scripts/ast_tls_cert PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/979/diff
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> Testing
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> I've generated a CA, client, and server cert, installed the client and CA certs on the Blink softphone, and set the server and CA certs in sip.conf. Everything works.
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> Example:
> ./ast_tls_cert -C pbx.mycompany.com -O "My Company"
> ./ast_tls_cert -m client -C "Joe User" -O "My Company" -c ca.crt -k ca.key -o joe_user
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> The first run would create the CA certs since the -c option wasn't passed and also asterisk.pem which would be copied to /etc/asterisk (or wherever) and used as the tlscertfile in sip.conf. The ca.crt can also be copied over and used as the tlscafile.

I suggest to copy the certs into a subdirectory, e.g. 
/etc/asterisk/certs/ (or similar) to have a better overview about the 
used certificates.

regards
Klaus



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