On Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 11:35:19 AM UTC+5:30, Rajiv Reddy wrote:
> I am following the instructions given on 
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/SSL_functions/gtstd.html#1012301
>  for getting started with SSL. As given in step 1, I successfully set up the 
> CA DB and certificate. When I try to set up the server DB and certificate, 
> the following command fails:
> 
> certutil -R -d server_db -s "CN=myco.mcom.org,O=MyCo,ST=California,C=US" -a 
> -o server_db/server.req
> 
> The error message shown on the terminal is:
> 
> certutil:  unable to open "server_db/server.req" for writing (-5950, 2).
> 
> As instructed, I executed the command after changing directory to server_db. 
> The files inside server_db are cert8.db, key3.db, secmod.db and server.req. 
> Can someone please tell me how to resolve this issue?

Now it shows this error:

certutil: unable to generate key(s): SEC_ERROR_IO: An I/O error occurred during 
security authorization.

I executed this command from the directory named "test", which has the two 
directories CA_db and server_db.

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