> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Staschulat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:12 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: self signed certificate
>
>
> Hi, I have problems creating a self signed certificate.
> I'm using OpenSSL 0.9.7a on SunOS 5.7 sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
> I went through the description of FAQ-page:
> http://www.corserv.com/freebsd/apache-ssl-howto.html
>
> OpenSSL quits with the error when I want to sign the server.csr:
>
> $> openssl ca -config ca.config -out server.crt -infiles server.csr
> ...
> Sign the certificate? [y/n]:y
> failed to update database
> TXT_DB error number 2
>
> I searched on google and found the same question on the modssl-users
> mailing list (Dez 2002) , which is still unanswered:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg15877.html

Hello,

don't mess with openssl. Please refer to

http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_faq.html#ToC29.

There is a script sign.sh in the contrib dir of modssl source package.

Best regards
Alex Kuehne


-- Network Manager, SAG, Berlin, Germany

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