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Openssl: cat: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory

I try to create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) using

openssl req -new -sha256 -key domain.key -subj "/" \ -reqexts SAN -config <(cat /System/Library/OpenSSL/openssl.cnf \ <(printf "[SAN]\nsubjectAltName=DNS:foo.com,DNS:www.foo.com"))

but getting the following error message on my macbook

cat: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory

unknown option -reqexts

Any ideas?

Solution

  • Your command is probably copy&paste of a multi-line command where backslashes are used to join lines, however you somehow managed to get newlines converted to spaces.

    Remove all occurences of "backslash + space".