Hi Mauricio, thank you for your reply. I was doing this on my OpenLDAP 2.4.30 server and thought I would post my questions here as I followed the admin guide from OpenLDAP.org. I've been stuck with this for a while now. Can you let me know what exactly to do with openssl.cnf?
Thanks again
Jeevan
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:42:22 -0500
> Subject: Re: SSL CA Certificate issue ../../CA/newcerts: No such file or directory
> From: raubvogel@gmail.com
> To: jeev_biz@hotmail.com
> CC: openldap-technical@openldap.org
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:38 PM, jeevan kc <jeev_biz@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all I'm having trouble with the generation of CA. Please see the error at
> > the bottom and I'd appreciate any help to fix the issue.
> >
> > [root@lap00551]# mkdir /var/myca/
> > [root@lap00551]cd/var/myca
> > [root@lap00551 myca]# /usr/local/openssl.1.0.0d/misc/CA.sh -newca
> > CA certificate filename (or enter to create)
> >
> > Making CA certificate ...
> > Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key
> > .............++++++
> > ........................++++++
> > writing new private key to './demoCA/private/./cakey.pem'
> > Enter PEM pass phrase:
> > Verifying - Enter PEM pass phrase:
> > -----
> > You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
> > into your certificate request.
> > What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
> > There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
> > For some fields there will be a default value,
> > If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
> > -----
> > Country Name (2 letter code) [GB]:US
> > State or Province Name (full name) [Berkshire]:****
> > Locality Name (eg, city) [Newbury]:****
> > Organization Name (eg, company) [My Company Ltd]:****
> > Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:DIS
> > Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:lap00551.****
> > Email Address []:****
> >
> > Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
> > to be sent with your certificate request
> > A challenge password []:****
> > An optional company name []:****
> > Using configuration from /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf
> > Enter pass phrase for ./demoCA/private/./cakey.pem:
> > I am unable to access the ../../CA/newcerts directory
> > ../../CA/newcerts: No such file or directory
> > Regards,
> > Jeevan
>
> I think this might be the wrong mailing list for that. That
> said, you probably want to edit openssl.cnf to fit your needs