From c845ff070d03052f10d9d183682388429cf4fd92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Caswell Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:46:30 +0000 Subject: Revert "Don't allow an empty Subject when creating a Certificate" This reverts commit e505f1e86874acfd98826d64c53bf2ddfd9c1399. Empty Subjects should be permissible. Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5444) --- apps/ca.c | 10 ---------- 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'apps/ca.c') diff --git a/apps/ca.c b/apps/ca.c index db886117f4..e20561ca38 100644 --- a/apps/ca.c +++ b/apps/ca.c @@ -1404,10 +1404,6 @@ static int do_body(X509 **xret, EVP_PKEY *pkey, X509 *x509, BIO_printf(bio_err, "The Subject's Distinguished Name is as follows\n"); name = X509_REQ_get_subject_name(req); - if (X509_NAME_entry_count(name) == 0) { - BIO_printf(bio_err, "Error: The supplied Subject is empty\n"); - goto end; - } for (i = 0; i < X509_NAME_entry_count(name); i++) { ne = X509_NAME_get_entry(name, i); str = X509_NAME_ENTRY_get_data(ne); @@ -1569,12 +1565,6 @@ static int do_body(X509 **xret, EVP_PKEY *pkey, X509 *x509, goto end; } - if (X509_NAME_entry_count(subject) == 0) { - BIO_printf(bio_err, - "Error: After applying policy the Subject is empty\n"); - goto end; - } - if (verbose) BIO_printf(bio_err, "The subject name appears to be ok, checking data base for clashes\n"); -- cgit v1.2.3