On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, varoun p wrote:
> Currently on a VirtualBox VM hosted on a Mac OSX Lion:
> $ uname -prsv
> OpenBSD 5.0 GENERIC#43 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2415M CPU @ 2.30GHz
> ("GenuineIntel" 686-class)
> $
>
> Creating a PEM encoded, self signed X.509 cert as follows:
> $ openssl genrsa -out iam.key 1024
> $ openssl req -new -key iam.key -out iam.csr
> $ openssl x509 -req -in iam.csr -signkey iam.key -out iam.pem
>
> When trying to upload this cert (iam.pem) for use with Amazon Web
> Services, I get a malformed certificate error.
> The same sequence of steps when run on Darwin (Darwin 11.0.0 Darwin
> Kernel Version 11.0.0: Sat Jun 18 12:56:35 PDT 2011;
> root:xnu-1699.22.73~1/RELEASE_X86_64 i386) or FreeBSD (FreeBSD
> 8.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep 27 18:07:27 UTC 2011
> [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> i386) gives me a working cert that does not error out when trying to
> use it with AWS.
Since we don't all have access to Darwin and/or FreeBSD, what's the output
of:
openssl x509 -noout -text -in iam.pem
for the unaccepted and accepted certs?
Philip Guenther
