On Fri, Oct 22, 2004, Dan O'Brien wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> We're having some trouble generating a public.csr, so that we can 
> install an SSL Certificate on our web server. Verisign has no 
> suggestions. We've googled the error below with no results. Anyone have 
> any ideas?
> 
> Here's the command and the error result:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib/ssl/certs# openssl req -new -nodes -keyout 
> private.key -out public.csr
> Using configuration from /usr/lib/ssl/openssl.cnf
> Unable to load config info
> Generating a 512 bit RSA private key
> .......++++++++++++
> ..............................++++++++++++
> writing new private key to 'private.key'
> -----
> unable to find 'distinguished_name' in config
> problems making Certificate Request
> 5012:error:0E06D06A:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no 
> conf or environment variable:conf_lib.c:343:
> 5012:error:0E06D06A:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no 
> conf or environment variable:conf_lib.c:343:
> 5012:error:0E06D06A:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no 
> conf or environment variable:conf_lib.c:343:
> 5012:error:0E06D06A:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no 
> conf or environment variable:conf_lib.c:343:
> 5012:error:0E06D06A:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no 
> conf or environment variable:conf_lib.c:343:
> 5012:error:0E06D06A:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no 
> conf or environment variable:conf_lib.c:343:
> 5012:error:0E06D06A:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no 
> conf or environment variable:conf_lib.c:343:
> 5012:error:0E06D06A:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no 
> conf or environment variable:conf_lib.c:343:
> 5012:error:0E06D06A:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no 
> conf or environment variable:conf_lib.c:343:
> 5012:error:0E06D06A:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no 
> conf or environment variable:conf_lib.c:343:
> 5012:error:0E06D06A:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no 
> conf or environment variable:conf_lib.c:343:
> 5012:error:0E06D06A:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no 
> conf or environment variable:conf_lib.c:343:
> 
> TIA for any assistance,
> 

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