openssl killing me

[grapesmc]

ok, so I am trying to follow along with the Virtual Mail hosting document, that seems quick and simple. I, like many others have (i searched) get stuck on step 5 when i need to so some self-signing. I've done this before on Red Hat, etc. without too much problem. Here though, for some reason it seems that CA.pl has no idea where my configuration file is, and I receive the dreaded:

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unable to find 'distinguished_name' in config
problems making Certificate Request
11366:error:0E06D06A:configuration file routines:NCONF_get_string:no conf or environment variable:conf_lib.c:325:
Error opening Certificate ./demoCA/cacert.pem
11367:error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:bss_file.c:278:fopen('./demoCA/cacert.pem','r')
11367:error:20074002:BIO routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib:bss_file.c:280:
unable to load certificate
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I edited the files exactly as mentioned. I spent lots of time researching why this wouldn't work and tried all the advice I could find. I tried to add -config /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf to CA.pl. Nothing works and I am going to cry. I have version - openssl-0.9.7e-r1 ..

Can someone please help?


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-- update... okay, after spending what seemed like a lifetime i found some info here: http://ldp.paradoxical.co.uk/HOWTO/SSL-Certificates-HOWTO/x120.html

basically, you need to edit the CA.pl to be this:

#$SSLEAY_CONFIG=$ENV{"SSLEAY_CONFIG"};
$SSLEAY_CONFIG="-config /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf";

and this:

#$CATOP="./demoCA';
$CATOP="/etc/ssl";

I am not sure who to notify who to update the document
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yikes!

[morphal]

If you're taling about the wiki article, update it yourself. =) That's the beauty of wikis. Over on the right, you should see a link that allows you to edit it.