Self signed certificates?

["Raymond W. Lucke IV" <cosign@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am trying to set up my own cosign server and login server, and am 
trying to make it work with a self-signed certificate for now. I am 
wondering what it takes for me to get this to work. It would seem that 
nothing I try seems to work. I get the following error:

snet_starttls: error:14090086:SSL 
routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify 
failedcosign_choose_conn: no connection to servers.

I read in your documentation that SSL errors are some of the most 
difficult, and I have tried just about every variant of self signing I 
could do. Sorry if what I am asking sounds vague.

And even when I go to get a certificate signed by a Thawte or somebody, 
is that something that really is beneficial?

Thanks,

Ray