I tried removing both strings: Certification Authority for $hostname and Server cerificate for $hostname
even tried changing the hostname (although since i use dhcp that messed my my internet connection. On Friday 14 February 2003 09:59, George A. Theall wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:23:36AM -0500, Alexander Avtoneev wrote: > > During the "Creation of the Nessis SSL Certificate" part of the > > configuration an error message "An error occured while generating the > > cerificates and/or files!" > > I've read archives of this mail list, tried what was suggested, but > > couldnt get it to work. > > my hostname isnt *very* long: > > "cpe0080c6ea2a6b-cm.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com" this is what > > /root/openssl-output looks like: > > ... > > Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:problems making Certificate > > Request 2217:error:0D11A0A3:asn1 encoding > > routines:ASN1_mbstring_copy:string too long:a_mbstr.c:154:maxsize=64 > > On the contrary, your hostname is indeed too long. In your case, the > nessus-mkcert script tries to use the string "Certification Authority > for cpe0080c6ea2a6b-cm.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com" as the value for > organizationalUnitName when generating the certificate request. That's > 71 characters while the maximum for that attribute (ie, > organizationalUnitName, not hostname) by default is 64. > > When you say you tried what was suggested and couldn't get it to work, > what exactly did you try and in what way(s) did it not work? > > George
