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Splunk Enterprise Windows - openssl.cnf file default location?

NK
Explorer

WARNING: can't open config file: C:\\gitlab_runner\\builds\\build_home\\splunk/ssl/openssl.cnf

So why is the default location of openssl.cnf not %SPLUNK_HOME% ?

 

 

C:\Splunk>%SPLUNK_HOME%\bin\openssl version -d
OPENSSLDIR: "C:\\gitlab_runner\\builds\\build_home\\splunk/ssl"

 

 

 Do I need to create the above "gitlab_runner" directory structure to suppress the warnings?

(Using Splunk Enterprise Windows  v8.2.10)

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NK
Explorer

Discovered when I was doing the following:

C:\Splunk>%SPLUNK_HOME%\bin\openssl x509 -enddate -noout -in %SPLUNK_HOME%\etc\auth\server.pem
WARNING: can't open config file: C:\\gitlab_runner\\builds\\build_home\\splunk/ssl/openssl.cnf
notAfter=May 17 23:44:06 2026 GMT

 

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inventsekar
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

WARNING: can't open config file: C:\\gitlab_runner\\builds\\build_home\\splunk/ssl/openssl.cnf

the path was configured mistakenly i think. you can see the first portion is windows specific path and the last portion high lighted above, its linux specific..

so, your conf file should have path like this:
C:\\gitlab_runner\\builds\\build_home\\splunk\\ssl\\openssl.cnf

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NK
Explorer

@inventsekar wrote:

the path was configured mistakenly i think.


Where is that path configured in a Windows Splunk Enterprise installation? 

Update:

Looks like @rbreton answered it here in 2017!

I need another Windows environment variable:

OPENSSL_CONF = %SPLUNK_HOME%\openssl.cnf

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