On Fri, Jan 16, 2004, Charles Harmon wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am desperately trying to get crlDistributionPoints stamped to my
> (server/client) certificates.  For some reason it does not get added to
> any certificate I generate.  I have read through the openssl.txt file
> and it just says to add the following to the x509_extensions section:
> 
> crlDistributionPoints           =
> URI:http://hostname.domain.com/mycrl.crl
> 
> Well, no luck.  I have been searching through the archives for this list
> and basically it says the same thing.  In a last ditch I went and bought
> the O'Reilly openSSL book today which proved to be just as helpful.  I
> don't even see a reference to crlDistributionPoints in the book!  As
> this is my first attempt in setting up a CA I'm sure I am missing
> something stupid.  If anyone has a free moment to help me out it would
> be greatly appreciated.  I have included my openssl.cnf file for review.
> Since this is my first attempt any advice or recommendations would be
> useful.
> 
[config file]

What command are you using to make the server/client certificates?

What does:

opensssl x509 -in some_cert.pem -text

(where some_cert.pem is one you created) say?

Steve.
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