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Generating a Certificate for Your Sophos
Generation of the Certificate
1) Go to Certificates → Certificates and Click Add, then select Generate Self-signed Certificates
2) Create a name for your certificate
3)Select IP address in the Certificate ID option and enter the IP address value
- You will want the admin and user login to be on the same IP address for this to work
- To change the user redirect IP go to Administration → Admin Settings → Admin Console & End User interaction; click Use a different hostname and enter the new IP address
4) Fill in the values in the Identification Attributes such as Country name, state, locality name, organization name, organization unit name (department), email address
5) In Common Name add the IP address of the firewall on which the webadmin and captive portals will be opened (default example 172.16.16.16)
6) Once successfully generated, go to Administration → Admin Settings and set the certificate to the newly generated certificate
7) Now download this generated self signed certificate and import to the machines browsers