On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Dave Thompson <dthomp...@prinpay.com>wrote:

> >From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Michael Mueller
> >Sent: Tuesday, 11 December, 2012 15:45
>
> >Could I get a nudge. I'd like to get the SANs to show up in my certs.
>
> >in my request: <snip BC, KU, SAN>
>
> >what I get in the resulting certificate: <snip only BC>
>
> It depends on the CA, i.e. the person or organization who issues the certs.
>
> If you are the CA, and you are using openssl 'ca' commandline,
> configure copy_extensions as per the man page (and read the warning).
> If you don't have man pages on your system e.g. Windows
> http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ca.html
>
> Right now, I am the CA using 'openssl ca' in a closed environment.

I think copy_extensions will do the trick; I'll give it a try tomorrow AM.


> If you are the CA using openssl 'x509 -req', you can't take
> it from the CSR, but you can supply this (or any other) extension
> directly at issue time. If you do both the CSR and the issue
> yourself, a few seconds apart, this difference may not matter.
>
> This sounds like what my CA will be doing - they told me to list my SANs
in an email along with my reqs because they had to add it in.


> If the CA is somebody else, ask them. Maybe you can click
> a form. Maybe you must sacrifice a goat. It's up to the CA.
>

I'll keep the goat advice handy just in case.  Hope it doesn't come to that.

Big thanks.

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