Problems revoking a cert

[Michael Leone <turgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SO I was an idiot, and signed a certificate, but specified an invalid location. i.e., I used a "/" instead of a "/" in the location.

$ sudo openssl ca -in requests/<client>.req -out certs\<client>-2020-02-24.<FQDN>

And so I can't find that cert file anywhere (obviously). So I'd like to revoke it, so that I can re-sign it properly. But whenever I go to revoke it, I have nothing to use an input to the revoke functionality.

I know the serial number of the wrongly issued cert, I had hoped I could revoke using just the serial number. But searches tell me I can't do it that way.

So what can I do now? (short of asking for another request file, I mean - I can't resign the existing one, openssl tells me that a cert already exists. And I don't think I can just insert the bad cert serial number in the CRL, right? To "effectively" revoke it, so I can resign, properly?).

Thanks

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