Question concerning signing of a certificate request
Stefan Homberg
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Hi!
I' m experiencing difficulties while trying to sign a certificate request
(openssl ca -keyfile ./private/caKey.pem -in ./private/gatewayReq.pem -out
gatewayCert.pem -outdir ./certs). The error message is: wrong number of
fields on line 2 (looking for field 6, got 1, '' left)
Who can help solving this problem?
Thanx in advance!
Stefan Homberg
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Stefan Homberg
thanx for your help! I have checked and re-edited my index.txt file (with
emacs) but unfortunately the problem remains more or less the same. The
error message now is wrong number of fields on line 1 (looking for field 6,
got 6,
'/C=DE/O=riofactory_GmbH/CN=riofactoryTestCA/Email=hom...@riofactory.de'
left)
And my index.txt looks like this:
V 060308132400Z "leer" 00 unknown
/C=DE/O=riofactory_GmbH/CN=riofactoryTestCA/Email=hom...@riofactory.de
Bye...
Stefan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Wirth" <steve...@ginit-technology.com>
To: <openss...@openssl.org>
Cc: <hom...@riofactory.de>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: Question concerning signing of a certificate request
> hi,
>
> your problem is in the "index.txt" file (located in your CA-directory).
The individual entries in each line of that file must absolutely be
separated by TABs, not by spaces!
>
> Your "index.txt" probably got messed up, meaning that the tabs were
converted to spaces (maybe you saved it from a text editor?). This means
OpenSSL's functions are not able to parse it any more - they find 1 item per
line instead of the 6 expected.
>
> Take a look at
http://www.dfn-pca.de/certify/ssl/handbuch/ossl095/ossl095-7.html#ss7.1 for
an in-depth description of how to construct a valid index.txt
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
> Stefan Homberg wrote:
>
> > Hi!I' m experiencing difficulties while trying to sign a certificate
request (openssl ca -keyfile ./private/caKey.pem -in
./private/gatewayReq.pem -out gatewayCert.pem -outdir ./certs). The error
message is: wrong number of fields on line 2 (looking for field 6, got 1, ''
left)Who can help solving this problem?Thanx in advance!Stefan Homberg
>
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