On Fri, Jan 09, 2004, Thomas wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am a beginner in Openssl, just a stupid question:
> 
> I use SuSE 9.0, I try to add a new Certificate Authority with /usr/share/ssl/
> misc/CA.pl -newca
> 
> The problem ist, that this command ignores my /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf .
> E.g. I defined a "dir             = ./certCA", but I still creates the 
> directory /demoCA, which was predefined "dir             = ./demoCA"
> 
> Any Idea ? 
> 

CA.pl currently doesn't look in openssl.cnf, the paths are in the script
itself. If you edit the lines around the top of CA.pl (the CATOP line) it
should work.

Steve.
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