[openssl-users] missing default /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf causes failure on AIX, warning on all others

[mclellan, dave]

Thank you Rich.



The sentence you couldn't understand is my bad, s/b:



"In fact, on some, even non-AIX hosts, permissions would suggest that the permission error should be returned."



Dave



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-----Original Message-----
From: openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-bounces at openssl.org] On Behalf Of Salz, Rich
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:22 PM
To: openssl-users at openssl.org
Subject: Re: [openssl-users] missing default /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf causes failure on AIX, warning on all others



> None of the hosts we've visited have /usr/local/ssl, not to mention the actual default file.  In fact, on some, even non-AIX hosts, permissions would suggest that the permission should be returned.



Not sure what that last sentence means.



> Should this be happening? Is AIX simply less forgiving, and returns  a more serious error.   Or is the openssl CLI handling the missing file differently on AIX?



I can well believe that AIX is, exactly that, less forgiving and returns different error codes than many other Unices.   There is no AIX-specific code in openssl around file access.  Trying "ls -ld" on /usr and /usr/local and /usr/local/ssl and checking errno might be interesting.

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