OpenSSL on Windows: fixing the “unable to write ‘random state'” (via: Stack Overflow)
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/05
If you are running OpenSSL as a regular user, or cannot perform “RunAs Administrator”, and you get this error message:
unable to write 'random state'
then make sure you have set your environment variables correctly before running OpenSSL:
RANDFILE=%LOCALAPPDATA%\.rnd
A full batch file front-end for OpenSSL.exe is this one:
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| @echo off | |
| :: prevent "unable to write 'random state'" | |
| call :do set RANDFILE=%LOCALAPPDATA%\.rnd | |
| "%~dp0OpenSSL.exe" %* | |
| goto :eof | |
| :do | |
| echo %* | |
| %* | |
| goto :eof |
Note: if you get the same message on Linux, it usually means that the rights for ~/.rnd are not set correctly. See the question Using openssl what does “unable to write ‘random state'” mean? for an exaplanation.
–jeroen
via: paypal – How to fix “unable to write random state ” in openssl – Stack Overflow.
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