"Ikbal, Javed" wrote:
> 
> What I want to do:
> Create a cert with certain strings in the subjectAltName extension
> 
> What I have tried:
> 1. in openssl.cnf, added this line:
>   [ v3_ca ]
>   subjectAltName = test Extension string
> and ran openssl req -reqexts = v3_ca -newreq ...
> 

Thats an invalid command syntax it should be 

openssl req -reqexts v3_ca -newreq ...

its also an invalid extension syntax, see doc/openssl.txt

> then after combining this with the private key, signed and generated the
> cert using CA.pl
> 

Only OpenSSL 0.9.7 will add extension requests to when signing a
certificate. Previous versions ignore them.

Steve.
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