On Thu, Nov 18, 2004, Dan O'Brien wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2004, at 7:49 PM, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > > >On Wed, Nov 17, 2004, Dan O'Brien wrote: > > > >> > >> > >>Hi Steve, thanks for the response. We did not get this error (or if we > >>have, we haven't seen it): > >> > >> Using configuration from /some/path/openssl.cnf > >> Unable to load config info > >> > >>But we did get this error upon attempting to make a CA: > >> > >> unable to find 'distinguished_name' in config > >> problems making Certificate Request > >> > > > >OK, try repeating the command with the -verbose command line option. > >It should > >then tell you where its getting its configuration from. > > > >Check if the file exists is readable or is obviously broken. If it > >contains no > >line with this in it: > > > >[distinguished_name] > > > >then that counts as broken :-) > > > > > > OK -- the "-v" option is unknown to the "req" command, as in: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# openssl req -v -new -x509 -keyout private/cakey.pem -out > cacert.pem -days 7000
I said use the -verbose option not -v as in: openssl req -verbose -new -x509 -keyout private/cakey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 7000 Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Funding needed! Details on homepage. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]