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CERN Certification Authority

Instructions

• Visit (CERN Certification Authority) and download certificate, remember the import password.

Using Browser

1. Settings > Privacy and security > Security > Manage certificates
2. click import
3. choose "mycert.p12" file, click next
4. Select "Personal" in Certificate store
5. done

On lxplus

1. Move the .p12 or .pfx file to your Linux directory, ~/.globus and call it "mycert.p12"
2. The following extracts your certificate and your private key from the .p12 backup file. You will need to create a strong passphrase that will protect your private key. The passphrase should be at least 16 characters long and contain upper and lower case letters.

 cd ~/.globus
openssl pkcs12 -in mycert.p12 -clcerts -nokeys -out usercert.pem
openssl pkcs12 -in mycert.p12 -nocerts -out userkey.pem
#Execute the following by pasting them all into your command line
chmod 400 userkey.pem
chmod 444 usercert.pem
rm mycert.p12
chmod 700 ~/.globus
ls -lrt

-- MichaelPitt - 2021-06-26