Install own CA-Certificate in Linux
Overview
Ubuntu, SLES, Debian
Tested under Ubuntu and SLES 11 so far.
Required Packages
install with apt-get install ... or similar
openssl
Steps
# Step 0: Convert the Certificate to PEM format
openssl x509 -inform der -in certificate.cer -out certificate.pem
# Step 0.5: Make sure there is only 1 Certificate in the File
grep 'BEGIN.* CERTIFICATE' certificate.pem | wc -l # should output `1`
# Step 1: Verify it's the correct Certificate
openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint -in certificate.pem
# Step 2: Copy the File to /etc/ssl/certs
# Do I really have to explain that? If you can't do that on your own you
# probably shouldn't be installing CA-Certificates anyway...
# Step 3: Find out the Hash of your Cert
openssl x509 -noout -hash -in certificate.pem
# Step 4: Inside /etc/ssl/certs, link your certificate to "hash.0"
ln -s certificate.pem `openssl x509 -hash -noout -in certificate.pem`.0
CentOS
Required Packages
install with yum install ... or similar
ca-certificates
Steps
# Enable the CA configuration feature
update-ca-trust enable
# Add the new certificate to `/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors`
cp certificate.cer /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/
# update the CA certs
update-ca-trust extract
And that's it!