HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

slweb(1M) slweb(1M)

Security Certiﬁcates

slweb will generate an SSL certiﬁcate authority and use that to sign a generated SSL certiﬁcate. Because

this certiﬁcate is self signed, your web browser will probably prompt you to see if you want to accept this

certiﬁcate before it connects to the HP-UX hardware event viewer application.

It is possible to accept these certiﬁcates each time, just for the session, or you can accept the certiﬁcates on

a permanent basis (10 years), and not have to accept them again later.

slweb regenerates the certiﬁcates when they are not there, if the hostname is changed on the system, or

when the -c option is used.

Online Help

Once the HP-UX hardware event viewer is started, the online help provides details on how to use the tool.

RETURN VALUES

Upon completion, slweb returns one of the following values:

0 Successful.

1 An error occurred.

WARNINGS

Accepting a certiﬁcate saves an identiﬁer for the certiﬁcate in a ﬁle where the browser is running. If you

reinstall the slweb gui, the certiﬁcate will be altered, and some browsers report the change in id as a

potential security violation.

When this happens, you have to instruct your browser to delete the saved certiﬁcate. On Netscape 4.7x

this is done by selecting the Communicator:Tools:Security Info

menu pick. On the resulting

dialog box, select the

Certificates:Web Sites

area and delete any certiﬁcates for machine associ-

ated with the security violation.

AUTHORS

slweb was developed by Hewlett-Packard.