No possibility to create more than 16 certificates

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Applies to

eMail Server: Version 2

Symptom

You like to create certificates for your users. After crating the 16th certificate an error occurs: Unable to load number from ./serial
From then, you can not create certificates any more.

Cause

It may happen that by an error the file

/etc/postfix/CA/serial

contains more than two characters. Regularly, there are two hex-encoded characters in it.
This error causes a leading null.

Solution

Edit

/etc/postfix/CA/serial

and remove the leading null, so that the number consists of two characters. From then you can create new certificates.
It may happen that the error occurs again after creating some certificates. In this case you have to edit the file again.
Keywords: IMAP, CERTIFICATE, SSL, SERIAL

Categories: SuSE Linux IMAP Server

SDB-rsimai_imap_certificates, Copyright SuSE Linux AG, Nürnberg, Germany - Version: 25. Jun 2001
SuSE Linux AG - Last generated: 25. Jun 2001 by rsimai (sdb_gen 1.40.0)