Re: default_days problem

2005-02-28 Thread Sanjay Acharya
Hello. Thanks for the solution. Actually I phrased the question wrong. I am sorry about that. Let me rephrase my question. I actually tried to create the self signed certificate without the x509 option using "req" as follows, 1) First generated the cert request, > openssl req -newkey rsa:1024 -c

Re: default_days problem

2005-02-28 Thread sravan
Hi Sanjay, the following is an extract from the documentation(http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/req.html) for the "req" command : .. - days *n * when the *-x509* option is being used this specifies the number of days to certify the certificate for. *The default is 30 days.* .. so, if u

default_days problem

2005-02-28 Thread Sanjay Acharya
Hi everyone. I am a newbie with regards to openssl. I would really appreciate if anyone can help me with this. I am having a problem with creation of a root certificate in linux. I have created my own configuration file "openssl.cnf" and am using that to create a root ca certificate. I am using the