Re: CA Issues

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:33:46 +0000, Paddy Tollan wrote:

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> Hi I am trying to generate a self signed CA certificate for a debian
> mail server I am able  to start the process but when it comes to signing
>  the certificate eg running the command openssl ca -out cert.pem -config
>  ./openssl.cnf -infiles req.pem
> 
> I get the error msg "error opening CA private key CA/private/cakey.pem
> no such file or directory error opening private key the directory and
> file is there at /root/CA/private/cakey.pem so not sure what to do to
> fix this any help valued i am using the file at this website as my base
> 
> 
> http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/ssl-cert-howto.php

Are you using the suggested "openssl.cnf" file as template?

What's the output of "ls -l /root/CA/*"?

Greetings,

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Camaleón