Re: openssl ca

[Mark Roach <mrroach@okmaybe.com>]

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 23:04, okidz@pindad.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to setup MySQL's SSL using openssl command.
[..]
> Certificate is to be certified until Feb 10 04:01:25 2004 GMT (365 days)
> Sign the certificate? [y/n]:y
> failed to update database
> TXT_DB error number 2
> 
> What could be the problems?
> Pointers please...

you should have a line in your openssl.cnf like:

database        = $dir/index.txt        # database index file.

this file needs to exist before you can create a certificate. Just do 
  touch $dir/index.txt
where $dir is the same $dir as in your openssl.cnf

HTH

-Mark