You may find this recent thread informative:
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto/browse_thread/thr
ead/5885eb5986864447

Dave

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la.org] On Behalf Of jehan procaccia
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:10 PM
> To: dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org
> Subject: distribute our CA to users
> 
> hello,
> 
> I found from 
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools/certuti
> l.html how 
> to import our CA (Internal PKI) in firefox3.
> Now I want to distribute cert8.db and key3.db to all new 
> users and also 
> to current users who already have a profile.
> How can I do that ?
> When  a user first start  firefox , a profile is create in it's   
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/y9f0c08g.default, then  cert8.db, key3.db and 
> secmod.db are pushed there, but where is the source of these files so 
> that I can modify them before they are pushed ? I did notices 
> in linux 
> /etc/pki/nssdb, put after changed them , they were not those 
> one pushed 
> on a new user mozilla profile :-(
> How will I do for current users who already have a profile ?
> 
> Better solution will be to set this with autoconfig 
> (http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/MCD,_Mission_Control_Des
ktop_AKA_AutoConfig) 
> 
> If there is a preference  (pref.js) directive that set the path to 
> cert8.db, I would point it to a central cert8.db on the 
> shared stations !
> But from http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html I've 
> only seen 
> that preference "security.default_personal_cert" and it  
> doesn't seem to 
> be the correct one :-( .
> 
> any help will be greatly appreciated .
> Thanks.
> 
> PS: I will also have to do that on windows ...
> I wrote (In french) a doc on how i've imported our CA in cert8.db :
> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~procacci/wiki/bin/view/Docum
entations/MozillaCertutils 
> 
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