Jan Staschulat said: > 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 > > > Any Ideas?
My guess is you don't have the database file. On unix system do "touch <f>", where <f> is the value of the database in ca.config. I also remember having to initialise the serial file: echo 00 > serial HTH > > Jan > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Aaron Stromas | "Tik-tik-tik!!!... ja, Pantani is weg..." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | BRTN commentator +1 (301) 493 4933 | L'Alpe d'Huez http://www.izoard.com | 1995 Tour de France ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
