NAME

       pyca - CA written in python

DESCRIPTION

       The  scripts  in  ths suite are basically wrappers around openssl(1). Additionally the scripts integrates
       the generic CA-functionality with the mail-system and apache for handling certificate requests; with LDAP
       for handling distributing certificates and revocation lists; and cron for maintenance tasks.

PROGRAMMES

       ca2ldif.py
              Write CA certificates and CRLs to a LDIF file. This is intended for initially setting  up  the  CA
              entries  not  for  daily  CRL  update.  The  entries are of objectclass certificationAuthority and
              contain    the     attributes     cACertificate;binary,     authorityRevocationList;binary     and
              certificateRevocationList;binary.  This  might require extending schemas on LDAPv2 servers. Have a
              look at your LDAP servers configuration documentation.

       certs2ldap.py
              Send all certs and CRLs to a LDAP repository.

       copy-cacerts.py
              Copy all CA certificates defined in an OpenSSL configuration to a bundled PEM file or a  directory
              with  hash-named  symbolic links. This is quite handy in conjunction with ApacheSSL or Apache with
              mod_ssl for copying the files for SSLCACertificateFile or SSLCACertificatePath.

       ns-jsconfig.py
              Create Javascript code containing all CA certificates defined in an OpenSSL configuration for  use
              with the Netscape admin tool (creating netscape.cfg).

       print-cacerts.py
              This  simple  script prints all CA certs on stdout. It is intended to generate authentic printouts
              (on paper!) of the CA certs fingerprints and is typically run on the private  CA  system.   Choose
              the option --html to generate nicer formatted HTML-output instead of the default textual output in
              ISO-8859-1.

       ns-jsconfig.py
              Create a Javascript file to be included in a Netscape configuration file (netscape.cfg).

SEE ALSO

       pyca(8)

       The programs are documented fully by the HTML documents in /usr/share/doc/pyca/htdocs/

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2001 - 2003 Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>

       This software including all modules is Open Source and given away under: GPL (GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE)
       Version 2.

       The author refuses to give any warranty of any kind.

AUTHOR

       Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>

       This manual page was written by Lars Bahner <bahner@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

                                                  june 30, 2002                                          pyca(1)