openssl config usage missing on requesting certificate #225

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adam · 2025-12-29T01:19:15+01:00

adam commented

2025-12-29 01:19:15 +01:00

Originally created by @kyse on GitHub (Jun 4, 2017).

I noticed when I was trying to run this script on a UTM host with an openssl config specified in my dehydrated config file, I kept running into an issue where openssl would complain about not being able to load up section v3_ca. This was due to the openssl.cnf in /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf using some env variable dehydrated doesn't use. The openssl.cnf file I specify in the dehydrated config isn't being applied when it attmepts to create a csr:

 echo " + Requesting certificate..."
  csr64="$( <<<"${csr}" openssl req -outform DER | urlbase64)"

Now, I didn't mess around much to create a tmp config, but changing it to this seemed to resolve the issue.

 echo " + Requesting certificate..."
  csr64="$( <<<"${csr}" openssl req -config ${OPENSSL_CNF} -outform DER | urlbase64)"

This stumped me for a while because I thought it was an error in my openssl.cnf file I specified, but turns out it was using the default cert UTM has since dehyrated is not specifying the cert in this call.

Originally created by @kyse on GitHub (Jun 4, 2017). I noticed when I was trying to run this script on a UTM host with an openssl config specified in my dehydrated config file, I kept running into an issue where openssl would complain about not being able to load up section v3_ca. This was due to the openssl.cnf in /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf using some env variable dehydrated doesn't use. The openssl.cnf file I specify in the dehydrated config isn't being applied when it attmepts to create a csr: ``` echo " + Requesting certificate..." csr64="$( <<<"${csr}" openssl req -outform DER | urlbase64)" ``` Now, I didn't mess around much to create a tmp config, but changing it to this seemed to resolve the issue. ``` echo " + Requesting certificate..." csr64="$( <<<"${csr}" openssl req -config ${OPENSSL_CNF} -outform DER | urlbase64)" ``` This stumped me for a while because I thought it was an error in my openssl.cnf file I specified, but turns out it was using the default cert UTM has since dehyrated is not specifying the cert in this call.

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[PR #225] [CLOSED] Fix domain name check from certificate. #762

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Reference: starred/dehydrated#225