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.
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