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I run an ejabberd server on an Ubuntu 12.10 box and this week I started getting notified by my IM client that the server's certificate had expired.
Here's how I managed to generate a new certificate.
WARNING: this process backs up, deletes and then restores your ejabberd database, so it is probably fairly risky.
# Move any previous backups out of the way sudo mv /var/backups/ejabberd-* ~/Desktop/ # Move the expired certificate out of the way sudo mv /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.pem /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.pem.old # Reconfigure the ejabberd package (WARNING: backs up and deletes your database!) sudo dpkg-reconfigure ejabberd # Make the database backup file readable sudo chmod a+rx /var/backups/ejabberd-*/ sudo chmod a+r /var/backups/ejabberd-*/* # Restore the backup sudo ejabberdctl restore /var/backups/ejabberd-*/ejabberd-database
If you're lucky, your server will now be back up with a new self-signed certificate.
In general, the policy of using dpkg-reconfigure to handle creating new self-signed certificate seems to work nicely.
Originally posted at 2014-07-15 07:44:41+00:00. Automatically generated from the original post : apologies for the errors introduced.
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