Liberty Systems & Software

It must be the week for stupid error messages.  I just tried to create a private SSL certificate for one of our server VMs from our Novell eDirectory iManager server.  The CSR was created by OpenSSL on the command line on the Ubuntu server, and i copied it to my laptop with the filename "req".  When i tried to issue the certificate through iManager > Novell Certificate Server > Issue Certificate, it gave me the singularly unenlightening error:

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Novell's SMT (Subscription Management Tool) is a software update tool for SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE.  I've had the dubious honour of working with it over the last few months on a client site.  These notes were compiled as a result of installing SMT on three different servers, and interacting with various people in the Novell forums, especially the novell.support.sles.updates forum.

What's wrong with SMT?

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