On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 04:58:55PM -0800, Doug Jaworski wrote:

> It is actually at the end when it is trying to write the cert file. The
> directory exist however the file does not. That is the last 3 lines of
> the error log.

Looking at the output, you have an error before that.

> Country Name (2 letter code) [FR]:State or Province Name (full name)
> [Some-State]:Locality Name (eg, city) []:Organization Name (eg, company)
> [Internet Widgits Pty
>  Ltd]:Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:problems making
> Certificate Request
> 36648:error:0D07A097:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_mbstring_copy:string
> too
> long:/usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/asn1/a
> _mbstr.c:154:maxs
> ize=64

Your hostname (ie, what "hostname" returns) is longer than 36 characters,
isn't it? If so, this presents a problem in generating the certificate
(request) for the Certificate Authority. For a solution, see the FAQ, as
maintained by Hugo van der Kooij:

    http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/docs/Nessus-FAQ.html#Q.CYPHER.HOSTNAME

George
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