Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Wrong system clock vs X.509 date specifiers | From | Tomas Mraz <> | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:39:07 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 18:31 +0100, David Howells wrote: > Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> wrote: > > > You can use openssl ca that allows to set arbitrary start date to > > generate selfsigned certs as well (-selfsign option). > > That seems to require some stuff I don't have installed: > > warthog>openssl ca -in signing_key.priv -extensions v3_ca -out newcert.pem > Using configuration from /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf > Error opening CA private key /etc/pki/CA/private/cakey.pem > 140244246955872:error:0200100D:system library:fopen:Permission denied:bss_file.c:398:fopen('/etc/pki/CA/private/cakey.pem','r') > 140244246955872:error:20074002:BIO routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib:bss_file.c:400: > unable to load CA private key > unable to write 'random state' > > (the /etc/pki/CA/private/ dir is inaccessible if not root and doesn't in any > case contain cakey.pem). > > Do I need to start with all the CA stuff in the right places to use it?
You can configure it to point to a different directories. But yes, you have to create a CA cert and so on. -- Tomas Mraz No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. Turkish proverb
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