174659 - Missing line break in cert requests generated by certutil

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(NSS :: Tools, defect, P2)

Description

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

The certificate requests generated by commands like
certutil -R -a ...
should end with -----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST----- on a separate line
by itself, e.g.

Bg==
-----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

But instead the string that marks the end of the request is always 
appended to the last line of the Base 64 encoded request, e.g. 

Bg==-----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

Comment 1

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Here's a patch:

--- certutil/certutil.c 26 Sep 2002 20:30:11 -0000      1.62
+++ certutil/certutil.c 15 Oct 2002 17:52:56 -0000
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@
            SECU_PrintSystemError(progName, "write error");
            return SECFailure;
        }
-       PR_fprintf(outFile, "%s\n", NS_CERTREQ_TRAILER);
+       PR_fprintf(outFile, "\n%s\n", NS_CERTREQ_TRAILER);
     } else {
        numBytes = PR_Write(outFile, result.data, result.len);
        if (numBytes != (int)result.len) {

Comment 2

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Fix checked in.