Keytool error: sun.security.x509.X500Name

Question

hello ... im using jre 1.3.1 and wanna generate my csr ...
first i do
keytool -genkey -keyalg RSA -keystore keystore -storepass 123456 -validity 360
then
keytool -certreq -keyalg RSA -file juan.com.csr -keystore keystore
and then i get one of these error:
keytool error: sun.security.x509.X500Name

Answer 1

You should specify the correct value for -dname option of -genkey command in the following format "CN=Mark Smith, OU=JavaSoft, O=Sun, L=Cupertino, S=California, C=US".
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/tooldocs/windows/keytool.html#DName
Case does not matter for the keyword abbreviations. For example, "CN", "cn", and "Cn" are all treated the same.
Order matters; each subcomponent must appear in the designated order. However, it is not necessary to have all the subcomponents. You may use a subset, for example:
CN=Steve Meier, OU=SunSoft, O=Sun, C=US
If a distinguished name string value contains a comma, the comma must be escaped by a "\" character when you specify the string on a command line, as in
cn=peter schuster, o=Sun Microsystems\, Inc., o=sun, c=us
It is never necessary to specify a distinguished name string on a command line. If it is needed for a command, but not supplied on the command line, the user is prompted for each of the subcomponents. In this case, a comma does not need to be escaped by a "\".