step ca init --pki --name="Tiny"

[geekmarine]

I'm having issues getting past this step. Can anyone help?

ubuntu@caserver:~$ sudo step ca init --pki --name="Tiny"
MoTTY X11 proxy: Unsupported authorisation protocol
qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display localhost:10.0
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the applicati on may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayl and-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.

Aborted

[maraino]

After googling this error, it looks like your user doesn't have the authorization to connect to the X server, we don't use the UI so my guess is that sudo is trying to display the password in the X server.

Here's some things that you can try:

• If you want to run it with the user root:
  • sudo -E step ca init...
  • sudo su and then step ca init ...
• Use your normal user, and then move the ~/.step directory to the desired location and change the owner with chown

See a full explanation and solutions here:
https://kerneltalks.com/troubleshooting/mobaxterm-x11-proxy-authorisation-not-recognised/
https://superuser.com/questions/912669/error-putty-x11-proxy-authorisation-not-recognised
https://chadrick-kwag.net/x11-proxy-unsupported-authorisation-protocol-error-fix/

[geekmarine]

Thanks for the help. I'll give this a shot this weekend.

Much appreciation for this tutorial. I'm using your tutorial for learning purposes.