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NAS_ARGH
Nov 10, 2013Aspirant
Generate a certificate????!!!!?!?!?
How in the world can one generate a security certificate with this Hunk of Junk! I have a Readynas NV+ 2V (ARM) and it does not have this Frontview that everyone says will generate the certificate....
xeltros
May 29, 2014Apprentice
Certificates are kinda tricky to get by.
If you want to avoid the warning you need :
- to have a certificate that fits the IP/hostname of the NAS.
- to make sure that certificate has been approved by a certification authority
- to add the certificate authority to your trusted list
- to check certificate authority with another one
To generate a self signed certificate you can do this via SSH via openssl, there are plenty of tutorial on internet to do so. If you want your certificate to be accepted without question, use a certificate from verysign or thawte but that's not cheap. If you want all your home certificate to be accepted you could set an certificate authority, but that's quite a hassle just to avoid checking "always accept" the certificate in safari or firefox...
If you want to avoid the warning you need :
- to have a certificate that fits the IP/hostname of the NAS.
- to make sure that certificate has been approved by a certification authority
- to add the certificate authority to your trusted list
- to check certificate authority with another one
To generate a self signed certificate you can do this via SSH via openssl, there are plenty of tutorial on internet to do so. If you want your certificate to be accepted without question, use a certificate from verysign or thawte but that's not cheap. If you want all your home certificate to be accepted you could set an certificate authority, but that's quite a hassle just to avoid checking "always accept" the certificate in safari or firefox...
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