[AG-TECH] AG2.1.2 Certificate Manager with python2.3

[Robert Olson]

are you using openssl 0.9.7 by any chance? this sounds like an open issue 
we have with pyOpenSSL and that version of the openssl libs.

--bob

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Christoph Willing wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 15:08, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> > Are you sure the python has the bsddb module in it? I believe that's an
> > implicit requirement of the certmgmt tool.
> > 
> > -Ivan 
> > 
> []
> > > 
> > > Has anyone had an AG2.1.2 installation working on Linux with 
> > > python 2.3 installed?
> > > 
> > > I have everything working except the Certificate Manager, 
> > > which does imports/exports of certs OK. However when creating 
> > > a new request, it never sends the request nor registers it in 
> > > the .AccessGrid/certRepo/requests/ directory and leaves no 
> > > error msgs in the log file.
> > > 
> > > Installation packages were rebuilt from source code - other 
> > > installations using identically built packages on hosts with 
> > > python2.2 work perfectly.
> > > 
> 
> As per earlier post, bsddb exists in python2.3 but it looks like there
> has been a rewrite of some sort.
> 
> I've now tracked this problem down to line 604 of the 
> CertificateRepository.py file, which says:
> 	xext = crypto.X509Extension(name, critical, value)
> and creates a Segmentation fault. It looks like crypto is a class from
> OpenSSL_AG which is a wrapper around OpenSSL.
> 
> Thats looking way beyond my comfort level. Could someone in the
> development look at it please? I'd enter it in bugzilla but it wasn't
> clear which category it should go into - ClientUI?
> 
> chris
> 
> 
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