[Fedora-directory-users] Importing private key into certificate store

[Rich Megginson]

You need to get your CA to export your key/cert data in pkcs12 (.p12) 
format, then use the FDS pk12util to import both the key and cert.

Kevin M. Myer wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I would like to use an external application to handle my certificate request
>(I'm using self-signed certificates - essentially my CA application would
>generate the request and then sign it, instead of using any of the FDS
>components to generate the request).  This process works fine, except that
>there doesn't appear to be an easy way to get the private key for the
>certificate into the certificate store.  Obviously, if you use the certificate
>wizard or certutil to generate the request, the key ends up in the store.  But
>if you don't, is there a way to import a key, so that importing a certificate
>will work?  Currently it balks about importing a signed certificate because the
>private key is missing.  I tried combining key and certificate into one file
>(PEM format) but that didn't help.
>
>Kevin
>
>  
>
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