BALLO Ismaël wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Sign a certificate request:
> openssl ca -in req.pem -out newcert.pem
>
> I've got the message : wrong number of fields line 1(looking for fields
> 6, got 1, " left)
>
> I don't understand this behaviour.
>
> PS : What demo/serial must contain(1), and demoCA/index.txt(2) ?
>
> (1) : "01" or 01 ?
> (2) : ?
>
serial must contain 01 (no quotes) index.txt must be empty i.e. zero
length. It must not contain a CR,LF or ^Z.
The script CA.sh or perl script CA.pl with the -newca option will do
this automatically.
Steve.
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