On Sat, Dec 18, 2004, Mike_SSL wrote:

> Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
> >>Certificate is to be certified until Dec 18 21:50:50 2005 GMT (365 days)
> >>Sign the certificate? [y/n]:
> >>CERTIFICATE WILL NOT BE CERTIFIED
> >>
> >>How can I diagnose and correct this problem?
> 
> >Well it normally does that if you hit 'n' to that query. Are you running 
> >the
> >command interactively or from a script?
> 
> I'm running it interactively.
> 
> I've opened a DOS command window and typed the command in.
> 
> After entering the command and pressing ENTER, OpenSSL queries for and 
> accepts my passphrase properly. But the "Sign the certificate" query 
> doesn't wait for input.
> 
> 

What version of Windows is that? There was an old console bug which messed up
some of the command prompting but OpenSSL was supposed to work around that.

> >Try the CA.pl manual page and the examples at the bottom.
> 
> Where would I find that?  I see reference to it in the FAQ section of 
> OpenSSL.org but can't find the manual page on the OpenSSL.org site.
> 

It's copied from CA.pl.in in the apps directory, but not under Windows. If you
copy CA.pl.in somewhere on your PATH and rename it CA.pl that should do.

Steve.
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