Installing And Configuring LDAP-UX Client Services

Configure the LDAP-UX Client Serivces with SSL Support

Steps to create database files using the certutil utility

The following steps show you an example on how to create the security database files, cert8.db and key3.db on your client system using the certutil utility:

Step 1. Retrieve the Base64-Encoded certificate from the certificate server and save it.

For example, get the Base64-Encoded certificate from the certificate server and save it as the /tmp/mynew.cert file. This file should look like:

--------------- BEGIN CERTIFICATE ------------------------------------

-MIICJjCCAY+gAwIBAgIBJDANBgkghkiG9w0BAQQFADBxMQswCQYDVQQGEwJVUzEL

MAkga1UECBMCQ2ExEjAQBgNVBAcTCWN1cGVvsG1ubzEPMA0GA1UEChmgAhaUy29T

MRIwEAYDVQQLEw1RR1NMLUxkYXAxHDAaBgNVBAMTE0N1cnRpzmljYXR1IE1hbmFn

4I2vvzz2i1Ubq+Ajcf1y8sdafuCmqTgsGUYjy+J1weM061kaWOt0HxmXmrUdmenF

skyfHyvEGj8b5w6ppgIIA8JOT7z+F0w+/mig=

---------------

END CERTIFICATE --------------------------------------

Step

2.

Use the rm command to remove the old database files,

 

 

/etc/opt/ldapux/cert8.db and /etc/opt/ldapux/key3.db:

 

 

rm -f /etc/opt/ldapux/cert8.db /etc/opt/ldapux/key3.db

Step

3.

Use the certutil utility with the -Noption to initialize the new

 

 

database:

 

 

/opt/ldapux/contrib/bin/certutil -N -d /etc/opt/ldapux

Step

4.

Add the Certificate Authority (CA) certificate or the LDAP server’s

 

 

certificate to the security database:

•To use the certutil command to add a CA certificate to the database:

For example, the following command adds the CA certificate, my-ca-cert, to the security database directory, /etc/opt/ldapux, with the Base64-Encoded certificate request file, /tmp/mynew.cert:

/opt/ldapux/contrib/bin/certutil -A -n my-ca-cert -t \ "C,," -d /etc/opt/ldapux -a -i /tmp/mynew.cert

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