On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:23:36AM -0500, Alexander Avtoneev wrote: > During the "Creation of the Nessis SSL Certificate" part of the configuration > an error message "An error occured while generating the cerificates and/or > files!" > I've read archives of this mail list, tried what was suggested, but couldnt > get it to work. > my hostname isnt *very* long: "cpe0080c6ea2a6b-cm.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com" > this is what /root/openssl-output looks like: > ... > Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:problems making Certificate Request > 2217:error:0D11A0A3:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_mbstring_copy:string too > long:a_mbstr.c:154:maxsize=64
On the contrary, your hostname is indeed too long. In your case, the nessus-mkcert script tries to use the string "Certification Authority for cpe0080c6ea2a6b-cm.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com" as the value for organizationalUnitName when generating the certificate request. That's 71 characters while the maximum for that attribute (ie, organizationalUnitName, not hostname) by default is 64. When you say you tried what was suggested and couldn't get it to work, what exactly did you try and in what way(s) did it not work? George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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