[Pki-users] certutil: unable to generate key(s)

[Marc Sauton]

Marc Sauton wrote:
> Fortunato wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I haven't found information on the topic but it looks like there's a 
>> problem with certutil - using IPv4.
>>
>>   [root at localhost alias]# certutil -R -k rsa -g 2048 -s 
>> "CN=cisco1.localdomain.com" -o cisco1.cert -v 12 -d 
>> /var/lib/pki-sub-ca/ -1 -3 -6
>>   certutil: unable to generate key(s)
>>   : An I/O error occurred during security authorization.
>>
>> Any ideas would be welcome.
>>
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> May want to tweak the -d option to point to the alias directory 
> <path-to-alias-dir>, not just /var/lib/pki-sub-ca/
> M.
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Side note: the i/o error happens because of the missing NSS db files, 
either wrong alias directory with -d, or need a certutil -N -d <path> to 
create them.
M.