root ca creation issue

[Joost Ringoot]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan DeKok" <aland at deployingradius.com>
> To: "Joost Ringoot" <joost.ringoot at meteo.be>, "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 September, 2024 20:34:31
> Subject: Re: root ca creation issue

> On Sep 18, 2024, at 9:31 AM, Joost Ringoot <joost.ringoot at meteo.be> wrote:
>> I am trying to make a root ca per recommendation
>> 
>> [
>> https://www.freeradius.org/documentation/freeradius-server/4.0.0/raddb/certs/index.html
>> |
>> https://www.freeradius.org/documentation/freeradius-server/4.0.0/raddb/certs/index.html
>> ]
> 
>  That's the documentation for v4.  You should check the documentation for v3.2.

I see, but the documentation for v4 is far more elaborate.
The manual of 3.2.6 is then rather in the files.
> 
>> but when I run
>> 
>> $ make distclean
>> 
>> as suggested to remove the test certificates
>> I get this
>> root at host:/etc/freeradius/certs# make distclean
>> make: *** No rule to make target 'distclean'. Stop.
> 
>  You can also read the "makefile" to see which targets it supports.


ok, thanks Alan
I see it is most likely 
"make destroycerts"

after that the 

./bootstrap 

generates new certs
and after 
"make destroycerts"
"make ca" makes also new certs


> 
>   Alan DeKok.