Setup: System preparation

You are likely to want to copy the configuration file to a sensible place, such as

/etc/tlspool.conf

You would instead choose a location under your user account for a personal installation. Note that a separate configuration file exists for use on Windows. We will be editing bits and pieces of the configuration file below, but you may already look around the file to get an impression of what it can do for you; the file is exhaustively documented to help you understand the various settings.

When you run the TLS Pool as a system-wide solution, such as on a server, you are probably going to let it run under its own userid and group:

useradd tlspool

Again, if you are trying to make the TLS Pool run under a personal account, you would typically skip this step; instead, you would edit the configuration file and set the daemon_user and daemon_group as well as socket_user and socket_group to make the TLS Pool run as you.