On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 18:31 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > You can use openssl ca that allows to set arbitrary start date to
> > generate selfsigned certs as well (-selfsign option).
>
> That seems to require some stuff I don't have installed:
>
> warthog>openssl ca -in signing_key.priv -extensions v3_ca -out newcert.pem
> Using configuration from /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf
> Error opening CA private key /etc/pki/CA/private/cakey.pem
> 140244246955872:error:0200100D:system library:fopen:Permission denied:bss_file.c:398:fopen('/etc/pki/CA/private/cakey.pem','r')
> 140244246955872:error:20074002:BIO routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib:bss_file.c:400:
> unable to load CA private key
> unable to write 'random state'
>
> (the /etc/pki/CA/private/ dir is inaccessible if not root and doesn't in any
> case contain cakey.pem).
>
> Do I need to start with all the CA stuff in the right places to use it?
You can configure it to point to a different directories. But yes, you
have to create a CA cert and so on.
--
Tomas Mraz
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