On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Robert Relyea <rrel...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 04/15/2013 02:34 PM, Matt Yakel wrote:
>
>> Hi all, Is the "certutil" a linux tool only? I am needing to deploy Local
>> Security Certs to our work network (windows).
>>
>
> No, it can be built for pretty much any NSS supported platform. We use it
> as part of the NSS tests. However, I know of no one who is distributing a
> version of certutil other than on linux.


Some time ago, we obtianed a modutil and certutil exe's which actually
using in our software.


>  I am trying to use the FirfoxADM to deploy the local user profile
>> settings. I need to get our Office Trusted CA in the .cer form into the
>> (cert8.db, key3.db, secmod.db) files that the Firefox ADM template
>> references. I am not sure what that is or how to get the tools to convert
>> them. I found the following links.
>>
>> http://www.mozilla.org/**projects/security/pki/nss/**tools/certutil.html<http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools/certutil.html>
>>
>> I kinds of understand the syntax of adding the parameter to the command.
>> But is this a Linux only tool? will it handle "*.cer" files?
>>
>> I see that I can download the .tar.gz from here, but how do I install it?
>>
>> http://www.mozilla.org/**projects/security/pki/nss/**tools/<http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools/>
>>
>
> Unfortunately that page is about a decade old. Your best bet would be to
> try to build NSS yourself on Windows: http://www.mozilla.org/**
> projects/security/pki/nss/nss-**3.11.4/nss-3.11.4-build.html<http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/nss-3.11.4/nss-3.11.4-build.html>
>
> You'l find certutil in mozilla/dist/{platform}.OBJ/**bin where {platform}
> is something like WIN95_DBG or WINNT_OPT depending on your build
> configuration.
>

Please, if you build using mingw, just let me know!


> NOTE: NSS has recently moved to HG, so there should be newer build
> instructions sometime in the future (they may already be available), but
> the link above should get you a reasonably up to date version of certutil.
>

Happy weekend!
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