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

[Chandrasekar Kannan]

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:52 -0700, Fortunato wrote:
> Thanks!
> 
> Fixed the -d option. 
> 
> Now I'm getting:
> 
>   Enter Password or Pin for "NSS Certificate DB":

    cat /var/lib/pki-sub-ca/conf/password.conf contains what you need.
    Look for internal token password. 

> 
> I did not set this Password/PIN. All the docs reference tksTool. I don't want to fubar more things but it looks like the following is needed:
> 
>   tksTool -N -d .
> 
> I assume the tksTool is part of pki-tks.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Marc Sauton <msauton at redhat.com>
> >Sent: Apr 29, 2009 11:42 AM
> >To: Fortunato <fortunato.montresor at earthlink.net>
> >Cc: pki-users at redhat.com
> >Subject: Re: [Pki-users] certutil: unable to generate key(s)
> >
> >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.
> 
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Chandrasekar Kannan --  ckannan at redhat.com
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