Errors while following, http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:SSL # ../shared/bin/certutil -S -n "CA certificate" -s \ > "cn=CAcert" -x -t "CT,," -m 1000 -v 120 -d . -z noise.txt -f \ > pwdfile.txt Generating key. This may take a few moments... certutil-bin: could not obtain certificate from file: DER-encoded message contained extra unused data. Does this mean anything? Followed by this error, [root at vuwunicvfdsm001 alias]# ../shared/bin/certutil -S -n "Server-Cert" -s\ > "cn=vuw.ac.nz" -c "CA certificate" -t "u,u,u" -m 1001 -v \ > 120 -d . -z noise.txt -f pwdfile.txt Generating key. This may take a few moments... certutil-bin: could not find certificate named "CA certificate": security library: bad database. certutil-bin: unable to create cert (security library: bad database.) [root at vuwunicvfdsm001 alias]# Does this mean anything? The contents of alias/ are, [root at vuwunicvfdsm001 alias]# ls -l total 608 -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 65536 Sep 14 09:27 admin-serv-vuwunicvfdsm001-cert8.db -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 16384 Sep 14 09:27 admin-serv-vuwunicvfdsm001-key3.db -rw------- 1 root root 65536 Sep 14 09:46 cert8.db -rw------- 1 root root 16384 Sep 14 09:46 key3.db -rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nobody 239744 Nov 8 2006 libnssckbi.so -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 62 Sep 14 09:44 noise.txt -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 65536 Sep 13 15:43 orig-slapd-vuwunicvfdsm001-cert8.db -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 16384 Sep 13 15:43 orig-slapd-vuwunicvfdsm001-key3.db -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 9 Sep 13 15:43 pwdfile.txt -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 16384 Sep 13 15:33 secmod.db -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 65536 Sep 13 15:33 slapd-vuwunicvfdsm001-cert8.db -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 16384 Sep 14 09:29 slapd-vuwunicvfdsm001-key3.db -rw-r----- 1 nobody nobody 416 Sep 14 09:27 tempcert -rw-r----- 1 nobody nobody 345 Sep 14 09:27 tempcertreq It is possible that since I generated some keys earlier there is some "residue" that needs removing? Secmod.db? Tempcert? Tempcertreq? Regards Steven
