From 9f9262ac2ec4e854f3638efb61adadf6c9c2531e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Narayan Desai <desai@mcs.anl.gov>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:55:48 +0000
Subject: add xmlrpc key generation info

(Logical change 1.337)


git-svn-id: https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/bcfg/trunk/bcfg2@1385 ce84e21b-d406-0410-9b95-82705330c041
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 doc/install.xml | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/install.xml b/doc/install.xml
index 48498a735..3f397ccb8 100644
--- a/doc/install.xml
+++ b/doc/install.xml
@@ -134,8 +134,16 @@ $ python setup.py install
 
       <para>SSL is used for channel-level data encryption. The
       requisite SSL certificates must be generated on the server
-      side. I need to figure out how to do this.
+      side. The following command will generate a server key:
       </para>
+      
+      <programlisting>
+openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 1000 -newkey rsa:1024 -out server.pem -keyout server.pem
+      </programlisting>
+
+      <para>This command will generate an SSL key including both an
+      RSA key and a certificate. This is suitable for use with the
+      Bcfg2 XML-RPC server.</para>
 
     </sect2>
 
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