is the date format correct then? the x509 doesnt seem to give me the exact 
format for datesetting and i used YYMMDDHHMMSSZ. I tried other formats but all 
no good. How did you set yours?

--- On Wed, 11/11/09, Lou Picciano <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Lou Picciano <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: problem with creating cert with openssl x509
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 11:13 AM
> #yiv965433757 p
> {margin:0;}Don't
> know that it will help, but can commiserate a
> little...(!)  
> We recently ran into a similar issue, ours related to
> notAfter: 
> In recent testing, we were able to issue a certificate with
> a notAfter field without error, but 
> 
> (this was against a PostgreSQL server, if it helps):
> LOG:  could not accept SSL connection: no certificate
> returned
> 
> So, in verifying the cert,  bingo!
> $ openssl verify (etc) 
> error 14 at 0 depth lookup:format error in
> certificate's notAfter field
>   (same test was OK on server, so is this an OpenSSL
> version issue?)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Al" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:56:48 AM GMT -05:00
> US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: problem with creating cert with openssl x509
> 
> I am trying to create a certificate with specific starting
> and ending dates. I searched around and it seems the
> parameter for -startdate from x509 is YYMMDDHHMMSSZ but when
> i tried to put the parameter:
> "-startdate 091119111506Z" i get unknown option
> 091119111506Z error. The statement in the script is
> something like:
> openssl x509 -req -sha1 ${DAYSTILLEXPIRE} ${STARTDATE}
> ......
> DAYSTILLEXPIRE is "-days 10" and that works fine
> but it doesnt like the parameters i put for STARTDATE....
> anyone can help me out? thanks!
> 
> 
> 
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