[SOLVED] zmcertmgr: Subject does not start with '/'

[admin1]

I'm unable to create a CSR using the command:

/opt/zimbra/bin/zmcertmgr createcsr comm -new -subject "/C=US/ST=MA/L=Norwood/O="Town of Norwood"/OU="Computer Department"/CN=zcl.norwoodma.gov" -subjectAltNames zcl.norwoodma.gov


This is on a "singlenode" RHEL5 cluster

The complete error:

writing new private key to '/opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/commercial/commercial.key'
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Subject does not start with '/'.
problems making Certificate Request

** Saving server config key zimbraSSLPrivateKey...done.
cp: cannot stat `/opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/commercial/commercial.csr': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/mailboxd/webapps/zimbraAdmin/tmp/current.csr': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access `/opt/zimbra/mailboxd/webapps/zimbraAdmin/tmp/current.csr': No such file or directory

I've read some forum posts regarding this problem but still no success.
Also, "/opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/commercial/commercial.csr" is created and does exist

[phoenix]

How about this thread: [SOLVED] Unable to generate commercial CSR

[admin1]

Thank you phoenix for having me reread that! (I read it before but gave up before reaching what turned out to be the critical line (for me, at least)
" Remove the -subject to fix it." was the fix for me.
I feel stupid now but I'm happy.

[phoenix]

Thank you phoenix for having me reread that! (I read it before but gave up before reaching what turned out to be the critical line (for me, at least)
" Remove the -subject to fix it." was the fix for me.
I feel stupid now but I'm happy.

Don't worry, it happens to us all. Glad you've fixed it.