RE: Webmin version 1.020 released

[Paxton, T. <tim...@ed...>]

Jamie, looks like I was missing the openssl.cnf file.

I copied one in to the location specified from another server and all now
works fine.

Thanks for your help.

Output below of the error given without the openssl.cnf file in place:

[root@server]# openssl req -newkey rsa:512 -x509 -nodes -out /tmp/cert
-keyout /tmp/key
Using configuration from /usr/lib/ssl/openssl.cnf
Unable to load config info
Generating a 512 bit RSA private key
.........++++++++++++
...++++++++++++
writing new private key to '/tmp/key'
-----
unable to find 'distinguished_name' in config
problems making Certificate Request
[root@server]#

Tim Paxton
Systems Administrator
EDS UK

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Cameron [mailto:jca...@we...]
Sent: 09 October 2002 00:54
To: web...@li...
Subject: Re: Webmin version 1.020 released


Paxton, Tim wrote:

> Hi Jamie.
> 
> I have a problem creating a custom PEM file on my (ancient, but can't do
> much about it) Mandrake Linux 7.2 server.
> 
> I get the error message:
> 
> Failed to create SSL key : 
> cat: /tmp/.webmin/385854_1_newkey.cgi: No such file or directory
> 
> The first 6 numbers seem to be random each time I do it.
> 
> The /tmp/.webmin directory's permissions are 0755 owned by root:root.
> 
> I did have to kill -9 <miniserv.pl pid> after the upgrade to 1.020 after a
> while, as they were working on all my boxes for a while but then stopped
> responding (seemingly a short while after I had added the new modules to
my
> webmin "all" group).
> 
> Any ideas?  I am willing to play about with this if you want, but it's not
> publicly accessible as it's behind the corporate firewall.


The problem may be that openssl isn't working properly on your system. Try
running this command as root as the command line :

openssl req -newkey rsa:512 -x509 -nodes -out /tmp/cert -keyout /tmp/key

You will need to enter your system's hostname or * when it asks for the
'common name'.
If it works, run

cat /tmp/cert /tmp/key >/etc/webmin/miniserv.pem

and re-start webmin.

  - Jamie