Thank you so much, I can not believe I missed that one in the FAQ ;-) -D
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Theall Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 5:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.9 and nessus-mkcert error 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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
