On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 06:17:06PM -0700, Steve Williams wrote:
>
> This is completely new to me, and I have followed three different sets
> of directions, and always come up with the same error message when I
> finally go to sign my own certificate. ( I am just being my own CA
> for testing purposes ).
>
> I am running on OpenBSD 2.7, with OpenSSL 0.9.5a Apr 2000
>
> I have tried using the openssl commands directly, and using the CA.pl
> script.
>
> Under all circumstances, I get to the final step ( sign ), and I get
> an error message:
>
> Using configuration from /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf
> variable lookup failed for ca::default_ca
Please check out your /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf. Did you modify it?
My openssl.cnf contains:
...
####################################################################
[ ca ]
default_ca = CA_default # The default ca section
####################################################################
[ CA_default ]
...
Best regards,
Lutz
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