Re: [Fedora-directory-users] pk12util error

Rob Crittenden
Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:49:09 -0000

Glenn wrote:
> Thanks to all for the quick replies.  The problem was indeed that the
> correct nickname is "server-cert", not "Server-Cert".
I am sure I tried
> this yesterday, but I guess that was yesterday.  This command does not
work:
>
> certutil -L -d . -P slapd-myserver-
>
> It returns this error:
>
> certutil-bin: NSS_Initialize failed: An I/O error occurred during security
> authorization.
>
> Part of the difficulty with certificates seems to be that the documentation
> for the utilities is so sparse.  If I knew that the nickname referred to
the
> name of a certificate rather than the name of the database file, this might
> have been helpful.
>
> I checked up2date, and it did download something called
"nss-ldap", but this
> does not seem to have made a difference.
>
> I would like to be able to use certutil, so if you can think of any reasons
> why it is not working, please share.  Thanks again for your help.   -Glenn.

certutil is another NSS utility that ships with the directory server. It
should be in the same place you found pk12util.

rob