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Internal CA Signed Cert without CSR (Certificate Sign Request)

We need to provide a secure SSL on our intranet website. Could anyone please help me query below:

  1. Is it possible to get Internal CA signed cert without a CSR?
  2. If above is Yes, how do it generate a Internal CA signed Cert without a CSR.

What am I trying to achieve?

We don't have Production IIS setup. And production IIS will only be setup during the change window. During this change window no resource available to generate CA signed Cert. for a given CSR. Hence, we are trying to create CA signed certs before hand without having to setup the Prod IIS.

Solution

  • You should be able to use OpenSSL to create a CSR independently of IIS (see its req command).