Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/01/24/06:44:25
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:00:28PM -0800, Maria Scharin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed cygwin and I am trying to create a certificate using
> openssl.
> The command is:
> openssl req -new -out server.csr
> And I get the following:
> unable to write 'random state'
It sounds as if you have not enough permissions to create or write
to the file. The default is $HOME/.rnd. Check the setting of
your $HOME and the permissions in general. The function will fail
e. g. if you don't havge an env. variable $HOME.
Just FYI, I just tested the above command on my Cygwin box and it worked
fine so at least I know that it can work.
> I searched this on google and I found one entry saying that I have to
> set RANDFILE in the environment or use the "-rand" option.
You *can* set RANDFILE, you don't have to. If you set it, it
overrides $HOME/.rnd.
Corinna
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