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Old 11-27-2006, 08:00 PM   #1
metallica1973
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Key Generation and Freeradius


I am trying to create root CA certificate,CA server certificate, CA clients by using CA.root, CA.srv, CA.client scripts that I downloaded from Freeradius.org following these directions:

http://www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk/~jhe...IUS-HOWTO.html

I cannot get the CA.root script to work. I get this error:

PHP Code:
[root@localhost pki]# ./CA.root
****************************************************************
Creating self-signed private key and certificate
When prompted override the 
default value for the Common Name
      field
****************************************************************

req [options] <infile >outfile
where options  are
 
-inform arg    input format DER or PEM
 
-outform arg   output format DER or PEM
 
-in arg        input file
 
-out arg       output file
 
-text          text form of request
 
-pubkey        output public key
 
-noout         do not output REQ
 
-verify        verify signature on REQ
 
-modulus       RSA modulus
 
-nodes         don't encrypt the output key
 -engine e      use engine e, possibly a hardware device
 -subject       output the request'
s subject
 
-passin        private key password source
 
-key file      use the private key contained in file
 
-keyform arg   key file format
 
-keyout arg    file to send the key to
 
-rand file:file:...
                
load the file (or the files in the directoryinto
                the random number generator
 
-newkey rsa:bits generate a new RSA key of 'bits' in size
 
-newkey dsa:file generate a new DSA keyparameters taken from CA in 'file'
 
-[digest]      Digest to sign with (md5sha1md2mdc2md4)
 -
config file   request template file.
 -
subj arg      set or modify request subject
 
-multivalue-rdn enable support for multivalued RDNs
 
-new           new request.
 -
batch         do not ask anything during request generation
 
-x509          output a x509 structure instead of a certreq.
 -
days          number of days a certificate generated by -x509 is valid for.
 -
set_serial    serial number to use for a certificate generated by -x509.
 -
newhdr        output "NEW" in the header lines
 
-asn1-kludge   Output the 'request' in a format that is wrong but some CA's
                have been reported as requiring
 -extensions .. specify certificate extension section (override value in config 
file)
 -reqexts ..    specify request extension section (override value in config file
)
 -utf8          input characters are UTF8 (default ASCII)
 -nameopt arg    - various certificate name options
 -reqopt arg    - various request text options 
what gives?
 
Old 11-27-2006, 08:01 PM   #2
metallica1973
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here is the contents of the CA.root file:

PHP Code:
#!/bin/sh

OPENSSL=/usr/bin/openssl
CAPL
=/usr/sbin/CA.pl
KEYGEN
=/usr/sbin/dns-keygen
PASSDIR
=pass
DERDIR
=der
P12DIR
=p12
PEMDIR
=pem

PASSWD
=$1

mkdir 
-p $PEMDIR $P12DIR $DERDIR $PASSDIR

if [ -"${PASSWD}"]; then
        
echo "No root password specified, trying $PASSDIR/root.pass."
        
if [ -a $PASSDIR/root.pass ]; then
                PASSWD
=`cat $PASSDIR/root.pass`
        else
                echo 
"Not found. Generating password, see $PASSDIR/root.pass for contents."
                
PASSWD=`$KEYGEN | head -c 32`
                
cat /dev/null $PASSDIR/root.pass
                
echo $PASSWD >> $PASSDIR/root.pass
        fi
fi

rm 
-rf demoCA

$OPENSSL req 
-new -x509 -days $VALIDFOR -keyout $PEMDIR/newreq.pem -out \
    
$PEMDIR/newreq.pem -passin pass:$PASSWD -passout pass:$PASSWD
echo "${PEMDIR}/newreq.pem" $CAPL -newca >/dev/null
$OPENSSL pkcs12 
-export -in demoCA/cacert.pem -inkey $PEMDIR/newreq.pem -out \
    
$P12DIR/root.p12 -cacerts -passin pass:$PASSWD -passout pass:$PASSWD
$OPENSSL pkcs12 
-in $P12DIR/root.p12 -out $PEMDIR/root.pem -passin \
    
pass:$PASSWD -passout pass:$PASSWD
$OPENSSL x509 
-inform PEM -outform DER -days $VALIDFOR -in $PEMDIR/root.pem \
    -
out $DERDIR/root.der -passin pass:$PASSWD

rm 
-rf $PEMDIR/newreq.pem 
 
  


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