On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:18:49PM -0300, Jay States wrote:
> I am use learning and testing CA's.  I have tried to create a 
> self-signed CA certificate using the following:
> 
> openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key sample.key -out sample.crt
> 
> and this is the error message that I get. I re-built openssl and 
> openssh, but I still get this error.  What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Using configuration from /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf
> sample.key: No such file or directory
> 64260:error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or 
> directory:bss_file.c:245:fopen('sample.key','r')
> 64260:error:20074002:BIO routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib:bss_file.c:247:

-key is used to specify the location of an already generated key. You want
to generate a new key (-new) and therefore must use the "-keyout" option
instead.

Best regards,
        Lutz
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