Thanks, Himanshu. That did the trick.
Joe DeBattista
UCSF, ITS
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On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Himanshu Soni wrote:
> If you notice carefully, the openssl rsa command is asking for the
> server.bak passphrase.
> Once you provide that passphrase (the one that you specified when using
> genrsa command), server.key will contain your un-passphrased private key.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joe DeBattista
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:53 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [BULK] - Removing passphrase for Apache server
>
>
> Hi,
> I sent a query last week about removing a passphrase from an Apache
> server I
> have set up with openssl-0.9.7d and compiled with the gcc compiler. I
> thought
> I'd provide a little more information. When I try to remove the passphrase,
> it says I need a minimum of 4 characters in the passphrase. Is this
> something in this version of openssl, as I don't remember having this
> requirement with earlier versions? I generated the key with
>
> $openssl genrsa -des3 -rand randfile1:randfile2:randfile3 1024 > \
> /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.key/server.key
>
> I made a copy of server.key to server.bak and then tried the following
> command
> to redo the passphrase and get the following:
>
> # /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl rsa -in server.bak -out server.key
> Enter pass phrase for server.bak:
> 21202:error:28069065:lib(40):UI_set_result:result too small:ui_lib.c:847:You
> must type in 4 to 4095 characters
>
> Is there a way around this?
>
>
> Joe DeBattista
> UCSF, ITS
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