Hy, So my end goal is to have a CA, which I can use to sign certificates. I have set up a CA, that was not that hard. But now I want to create certificates signed by my CA, and I want to provide the subject from the command line. I don't want it to be read from the openssl.cnf. That is because I have to create more certificates, and I do not want to modify the opennssl.cnf, for each of them.
I have tried to create certificates, signed by my CA, and the subject information was provided in the openssl.cnf file. That I have succeeded. Then I have tried to provide the subject information from the command line, and that I have failed. And I have verified the contents of the certificate, and the subject was not what I have specified in the command line, but what was found in the config file. So it looks to me like if this option: -subj "/C=DE/L=Munchen/ST=Bayern/O=Org/OU=Dev/CN=Test Certificate" is ignored, and like openssl tries to read this info from the config file, and I do not understand why :(. Regards, Gerald On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Serge Fonville <serge.fonvi...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I assume you have done a lot of googling and have read the docs > extensively. > > First, what is your end goal? > Since creating a certificate and having it signed by your own CA is not > that difficult. > What resources have you consulted. > What have you already tried. > Have you looked at the resulting certificate to verify its contents > > Regards, > > Serge Fonville > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Gerald Iakobinyi-Pich <nutri...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to create a certificate, on win, and I am having some troubles >> with OpenSSL. First I generate a key. That's ok. Then I create a request: >> >> openssl req -config .\openssl.cnf -subj >> "/C=DE/L=Munchen/ST=Bayern/O=Org/OU=Dev/CN=Test Certificate" -new -days 365 >> -key ..\demo_store\private\private_key_client.pem -outform PEM -out >> ..\demo_store\request\req_server.csr -passin pass:pass >> >> Then I want to sign this: >> openssl x509 -inform PEM -req -in ..\demo_store\request\req_server.csr >> -outform DER -out ..\demo_store\certs\cert_server.der -CAform DER -CA >> ..\demo_store\certs\ca_cert.der -CAkeyform PEM -CAkey >> ..\demo_store\private\ca_private_key.pem -CAcreateserial >> >> And the message printed out is: >> Loading 'screen' into random state - done >> Signature ok >> subject=/C=RO >> Getting CA Private Key >> >> >> Now, what disturbs me, is that it seems that the subject I have provided >> with "-subj" in the first "openssl req" command has been ignored. >> Why is that happening? What am I doing wrong? >> >> Thanks, >> Gerald >> >> >> >
