Solaris v Ubuntu using OpenSSL paste problem


 
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# 1  
Old 08-08-2012
Solaris v Ubuntu using OpenSSL paste problem

Hello,

I hope this means something to someone. I have an odd problem that just started happening recently. I am not the system admin, so I don't have full info on any changes to the system lately. Except that I did upgrade OpenSSL to version 1.0.1.c from 1.0.0j.

Anyway, I am trying to paste a long command at the OpenSSL prompt. On the Solaris system (SPARC 10), I can paste the full command when in a shell (bash) regardless of the connection (OpenSSH, Putty, etc). When I start up OpenSSL> the command is truncated after 257 characters.

On our Ubuntu server, the full command pastes in fine. On the Ubuntu server, OpenSSL is 0.9.8k.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks for any insights.
# 2  
Old 08-09-2012
You can try

Try pasting the commands in section by using this at the end of the line \.
Also there are often differences in switches used in Solaris and Linux.
I have not done much with open ssl. I have only upgraded it when a security flaw is found. I also work with it when I was trying to setup ldap.

I hope this helps a little.
# 3  
Old 08-09-2012
That works..

Thank you, that does work to accomplish this task!

On the other hand, do you know where I might look to find the switches you mentioned?
# 4  
Old 08-09-2012
I would look in the man pages. As I said I'm not an expert on ssl. I work on mostly Solaris servers but I also work on RHEL and SUSE servers. Linux will do this differently then Solaris. I can't think of an example at this time.

If your in the ssl prompt the switch should be the same for the most part.
# 5  
Old 08-09-2012
Thanks very much for your time on this.

Best wishes,

Jon
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