pyca(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   pyca(1)

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,  authorityRevocation-
	      List;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 SSLCACer-
	      tificatePath.

       ns-jsconfig.py
	      Create Javascript code containing all CA certificates defined in an OpenSSL configuration for use with the Netscape admin tool (cre-
	      ating 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 finger-
	      prints 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 (C) 2001 - 2003 Michael Stroeder <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 Stroeder <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)