Chapter 1 Command-Line Tools - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 4.5 - COMMAND-LINE Manual

Netscape Certificate Management System (CMS) is bundled with various
command-line utilities. This chapter summarizes these utilities and provides
pointers to chapters that further explain them.
Table 1-1 summarizes the command-line utilities that are bundled with Certificate
Management System.
Summary of command-line utilities
Table 1-1
Utility/Tool
Batch/Shell Scripts located under <server_root>/bin/cert/tools/ (require jre):
PasswordCache
(Password Cache Utility)
AtoB
(ASCII to Binary Tool)
BtoA
(Binary to ASCII Tool)
PrettyPrintCert
(Pretty Print Certificate
Tool)
PrettyPrintCrl
(Pretty Print CRL Tool)
Executable tools located under <server_root>/bin/cert/tools:
certutil
(Certificate Database Tool)
keyutil
(Key Database Tool)
Command-Line Tools
Function
Manipulates the contents of the single sign-on password cache.
For details, see Chapter 2, "Password Cache Utility."
Converts ASCII base-64 encoded data to binary base-64 encoded
data. For details, see Chapter 7, "ASCII to Binary Tool."
Converts binary base-64 encoded data to ASCII base-64 encoded
data. For details, see Chapter 8, "Binary to ASCII Tool."
Prints the contents of a certificate stored as ASCII base-64 encoded
data in a human-readable form. For details, see Chapter 9, "Pretty
Print Certificate Tool."
Prints the contents of a CRL stored as ASCII base-64 encoded data
in a human-readable form. For details, see Chapter 10, "Pretty
Print CRL Tool."
View and manipulate the certificate database (cert7.db)
contents. For details, see Chapter 11, "Certificate Database Tool."
View and manipulate the key database (key3.db) contents. For
details, see Chapter 12, "Key Database Tool."
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