Bug 49421

Summary:	openssl won't let you create certificate without a password
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Jonathan Kamens <jik>
Component:	openssl	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	1.0	CC:	djuran
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2001-07-19 13:40:21 UTC

/usr/bin/openssl won't let you create a certificate without a password (at
least not as far as I can tell).  That means that you can't create a test
certificate to install on your Web server which will allow the Web server
to come up with SSL enabled without stopping at boot time to prompt for a
password.  This is bad.

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-08-08 19:33:25 UTC

The default mode for the openssl "genrsa" command does not encrypt the key.
To prevent encryption when generating a key while generating a certificate using 
the "req" command, use the "-nodes" flag:
openssl req -new -newkey rsa:1024 -nodes -keyout /tmp/server.key -x509 -out
/tmp/server.crt -days 365