Can create a cert with no serial number?

[Jordan Brown]

On 5/31/2023 6:21 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Neat!  How do I force this?  My current method
>
> openssl rand -hex 1 > $dir/serial

If you don't care about serial number uniqueness...

$ echo 0 > $dir/serial

And if you do care about uniqueness but are sure that 128 is enough, I
believe the "ca" command will manage a simple counter... which you could
initialize to zero.

-- 
Jordan Brown, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle Solaris
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