Add a signer certificate to a keystore
Overview
Signer certificates establish the trust relationship in SSL communication. We can extract the signer part of a personal certificate from a keystore, and then we can add the signer certificate to other keystores.
The keystore to add the signer certificate to must already exist.
To add a signer certificate to a keystore using the wsadmin tool, use the addSignerCertificate command of the AdminTask object.
If the security custom property...
com.ibm.websphere.security.OverwriteAndReplaceOnImport=true
...then import certificate imports a certificate and overwrites an existing certificate. It then perform the certificate replace operation on that certificate. Typically, an existing certificate cannot be overwritten by a certificate being used imported. The task also replaces all signer certificates from the original certificate and replaces them with the signer certificate from the new certificate being used imported
Tasks
- Click...
Security | SSL certificate and key management | Key stores and certificates keystore | Signer certificates | Add
- Enter an alias for the signer certificate in the Alias field
- Enter the full path to the signer certificate file in the File name field.
- Select a data type from the list in the Data type field.
- Click Apply.
When these steps are completed, the signer from the certificate file is stored in the keystore. We can see the signer in the keystore files list of signer certificates. Use the keystore to establish trust relationships for the SSL configurations.
Subtopics
Related:
Keystore configurations for SSL Add the correct SSL Signer certificates to the plug-in keystore SignerCertificateCommands