Re: [cobalt-users] Moving SSL to Raq3

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From: "Jay Fesco" <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:06 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Moving SSL to Raq3


> > Has anyone successfully moved a current certificate from one server to a
> > Raq3 if possible and gotten it to work. If you did what was the
> > process you
> > used.
> > We have a client that is coming on from a competitor as well as we may
be
> > getting 4 other eccomerce clients from the same company. We are getting
> > desperate. I don't want to call cobalt yet:(
>
> Our experience is that you have to purchase new certs when you move to a
new
> machine.  The cert is keyed specifically to the machine it's generated for
> and won't work anywhere else.  Wish I had better news for you (and perhaps
> I'm wrong, but unfortunately I don't think so).

missed the first part fo this thread, but speaking from personal experience
of thawte certs they are machine specific, in much the same way as the MS
windows XP activation code, and so cannot be transferred from box to box....

whoever issued the cert could issue a new / replacement one in a few hours
though.