Importing And Exporting Certificates Using The Pk12Util Utility - Sun Microsystems GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 Administration Manual

Using Network Security Services (NSS) Tools
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Importing and Exporting Certificates Using the
pk12util Utility
The command-line utility used to import and export keys and certificates between the
certificate/key databases and files in PKCS12 format is pk12util. PKCS12 is Public-Key
Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #12, Personal Information Exchange Syntax Standard. More
description of the pk12util utility can be read at
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools/pk12util.html.
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118 Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 Administration Guide • December 2008
Import an RFC text-formatted certificate into an NSS certificate database.
certutil -A -a -n ${cert.nickname} -t ${cert.trust.options}
-f ${pass.file} -i ${cert.rfc.file}
-d ${admin.domain.dir}/${admin.domain}/config
Export a certificate from an NSS certificate database in RFC format.
certutil -L -a -n ${cert.nickname} -f ${pass.file}
-d ${admin.domain.dir}/${admin.domain}/config > cert.rfc
Delete a certificate from an NSS certificate database.
certutil -D -n ${cert.nickname} -f ${pass.file}
-d ${admin.domain.dir}/${admin.domain}/config
Move a certificate from an NSS database to JKS format
certutil -L -a -n ${cert.nickname}
-d ${admin.domain.dir}/${admin.domain}/config > cert.rfc
keytool -import -noprompt -trustcacerts -keystore ${keystore.file}
-storepass ${keystore.pass} -alias ${cert.alias} -file cert.rfc
Import a PKCS12-formatted certificate into an NSS certificate database.
pk12util -i ${cert.pkcs12.file} -k ${certdb.pass.file}
-w ${cert.pass.file} -d ${admin.domain.dir}/${admin.domain}/config
Import a PKCS12-formatted certificate into an NSS certificate database token module.
pk12util -i ${cert.pkcs12.file} -h ${token.name} -k ${certdb.pass.file}
-w ${cert.pass.file} -d ${admin.domain.dir}/${admin.domain}/config
Export a certificate from an NSS certificate database in PKCS12 format.
pk12util -o -n ${cert.nickname} -k ${pass.file} -w${cert.pass.file}
-d ${admin.domain.dir}/${admin.domain}/config
Export a certificate from an NSS certificate database token module in PKCS12 format
(useful for hardware accelerator configuration).