In "req" exit immediately if configuration file is needed and it can't

be loaded instead of giving the misleading:

"unable to find 'distinguised_name' in config"

error message.

diff --git a/apps/req.c b/apps/req.c
index 0f3d496d47814bd2553d81da8b57b69b3575526a..d634268653c4c37e969fdad92f7b14eba68bdd08 100644 (file)
--- a/apps/req.c
+++ b/apps/req.c
@@ -567,13 +567,16 @@ bad:
        else
                {
                req_conf=config;
-               if( verbose )
-                       BIO_printf(bio_err,"Using configuration from %s\n",
-                       default_config_file);
+
                if (req_conf == NULL)
                        {
-                       BIO_printf(bio_err,"Unable to load config info\n");
+                       BIO_printf(bio_err,"Unable to load config info from %s\n", default_config_file);
+                       if (newreq)
+                               goto end;
                        }
+               else if( verbose )
+                       BIO_printf(bio_err,"Using configuration from %s\n",
+                       default_config_file);
                }
 
        if (req_conf != NULL)