Thanks, that is annoying that it is not in the FAQ. 

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: George Theall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 15:35
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Nessus-mkcert issues

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:26:51PM -0500, Hildebrand, Brian wrote:

>    I'm trying to install Nessus on a new box and I'm having some
issues
>    with the "nessus-mkcert" script. Anytime I run it it fails to
generate
>    the keys and I see this error in the openssl output log:
>
>    22568:error:0D11A0A3:asn1 encoding
routines:ASN1_mbstring_copy:string
>    too long:a_mbstr.c:154:maxsize=64

This was recently added to the FAQ (although not the one on nessus.org
:-(.  The short answer is that your hostname (ie, fqdn) is too long.
Look to the FAQ at Hugo's site for the solution --
http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/docs/Nessus-FAQ.html -- it's question 1.4.6.

George
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