Openssl: Cat: /Dev/Fd/63: No Such File or Directory
I Try to Create a Certificate Signing Request (Csr) Using Openssl Req -New -Sha256 -Key Domain. Key -Subj "/" \ -Reqexts San -Config
I try to create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) using
openssl req -new -sha256 -key domain.key -subj "/" \ -reqexts SAN -config <(cat /System/Library/OpenSSL/openssl.cnf \ <(printf "[SAN]\nsubjectAltName=DNS:foo.com,DNS:"))
but getting the following error message on my macbook
cat: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory
unknown option -reqexts
Any ideas?
4 Answers
Your command is probably copy&paste of a multi-line command where backslashes are used to join lines, however you somehow managed to get newlines converted to spaces.
Remove all occurences of "backslash + space".
I came across this question and in my case I did not have any \ , but I was using sudo so I had to use sudo su -c
$ sudo su -c 'openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 3650 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/ssl/private/nginx-blah.blah.com.key -new -out /etc/ssl/certs/nginx-blah.blah.com.crt -subj "/O=" -reqexts SAN -extensions SAN -config <(cat /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf <(printf "[SAN]\nsubjectAltName=DNS:blah.blah.com,IP:192.168.174.128")) -sha256'
In some cases not mounted devpts can lead to the same error print. So needed to do: mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
/dev/fd is not an ordinary directory. In some case changing the user to root the rerunning the program could solve the problem.
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