certutil is one of the utility from Mozilla's NSS project. Check this page out for certutil usage: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools/certutil.html Regarding to your error, can you make sure you run certutil in your alias directory, and check if you have files named slapd-myserver-cert8.db, slapd-myserver-key3.db.-L specifies the directory where you have your security databases (cert8.db, key3.db, secmod.db)
-P specifies the prefix to the security database files thomas Glenn wrote:
Thanks to all for the quick replies. The problem was indeed that the correct nickname is "server-cert", not "Server-Cert". I am sure I tried this yesterday, but I guess that was yesterday. This command does not work:certutil -L -d . -P slapd-myserver- It returns this error:certutil-bin: NSS_Initialize failed: An I/O error occurred during security authorization.Part of the difficulty with certificates seems to be that the documentation for the utilities is so sparse. If I knew that the nickname referred to the name of a certificate rather than the name of the database file, this might have been helpful.I checked up2date, and it did download something called "nss-ldap", but this does not seem to have made a difference.I would like to be able to use certutil, so if you can think of any reasons why it is not working, please share. Thanks again for your help. -Glenn.---------- Original Message ----------- From: Thomas Kwan <nkwan@xxxxxxxxxx>To: "General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project." <fedora-directory-users@xxxxxxxxxx>Sent: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:23:59 -0800 Subject: Re: pk12util errorare you sure you have the certificate (and key) named Server-Cert? You can check by doing a certutil -d . -P slapd-myserver- -L in the alias directory. I just created an empty security database, and did a pk12util. It correctly reported your error. --- [root@cseng tmp]# certutil -d . -N Enter a password which will be used to encrypt your keys. The password should be at least 8 characters long, and should contain at least one non-alphabetic character. Enter new password: Re-enter password: [root@cseng tmp]# pk12util -d . -o a.p12 -n Server-Cert Enter Password or Pin for "NSS Certificate DB":pk12util: find user certs from nickname failed: security library: bad database.--- thomas-- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
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