Revert "Don't allow an empty Subject when creating a Certificate"

This reverts commit f2982ad79c9eeac4d8ee4225056f971eadf9302b.

Empty Subjects should be permissible.

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5627)

diff --git a/apps/ca.c b/apps/ca.c
index 603adfd406eb93672a2b4bfbefb7927cdea96fdb..24033971282dec5714cdf11fd08a6f7ccbfff89e 100644 (file)
--- a/apps/ca.c
+++ b/apps/ca.c
@@ -1405,10 +1405,6 @@ static int do_body(X509 **xret, EVP_PKEY *pkey, X509 *x509,
                    "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);
@@ -1573,12 +1569,6 @@ 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");