Questions tagged [certutil]
Certutil.exe is a command-line program that is installed as part of Certificate Services. You can use Certutil.exe to dump and display certification authority (CA) configuration information, configure Certificate Services, backup and restore CA components, and verify certificates, key pairs, and certificate chains.
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Install a PKCS#12 Certificate into firefox from the command line
I am trying to use certutil to add a client certificate to the firefox db:
The purpose of this certificate is to authenticate with a server - the server asks for credentials, this certificate contains ...
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Import certificate to Trusted Root Authorities for the Current User, with command line
I know how to import certificates to trusted root authorities with certutil
certutil -addstore "Root" <cert_path>
But for this I need administrator permissions. Though when I double ...
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Import self-signed certificate with private key on Windows from command prompt
Using inetmgr, I made a pfx file containing the public and private keys for a certificate. Now I'm trying to install the pfx into another machine from the command prompt with
certutil -p <password&...
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Pipe output from DIR into CERTUTIL
In Win10, looking for way to pipe the output from a DIR command at the Command Prompt or in a Batch File to serve as input to the CERTUTIL command. IOW, I want to get the MD5 hash for all of the files ...
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get the hash of a string and eventually compare it to a hash
I want to run a one-liner to enable me to get the hash of a string and eventually compare it to a hash I can just copy at the end of the command later. I'm confident I can figure out how to do the ...
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How to install CertUtil to Windows 7?
It seems that my version of Windows 7 (SP1, with PowerShell 4) lacks the certutil command. I tried to look for a way to add it manually but failed.
Any ideas on how to do it?
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Thanks to comments,...
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Using CertUtil MergePfx with password as a parameter
I'm trying to script generation of a single pfx certificate, from one key and one pem file. The following command in Powershell will generate a .pfx as expected:
CertUtil -MergePFX $srcPemPath $...
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Is it possible to encode a file with certutil without creating new file?
I'm encoding files with following command:
certutil -encode inputFileName encodedOutputFileName
However, this creates a new file on the system. Is it possible to print encoded data on command line ...
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Installing/deleting root certificate without CertMgr / CertUtil asking the end-user for confirmation
When you install or delete a root CA certificate using the commandline tools CertUtil.exe or CertMgr.exe, Windows asks the user for confirmation using a MessageBox (for certificates other than root CA ...
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How to automatically compare current windows root certificate store against latest root certificates?
I do have a provider that complains the trusted root certificates on our several windows server systems (2008, 2012, 2016, 2019) are outdated.
I was not able to prove the opposite. For sure "Turn ...
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Paginate results of certutil -view
I'm using the following command to get a list of issued certificates in a Windows Server machine with Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) installed.
certutil -restrict 'Disposition=20' -out '...
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CertUtil: ERROR_INVALID_ACL (0x80070538) exception when trying to install root certificate on Windows
I have a program that installs a certificate to Trusted Root (with user's consent). However, some of the users are unable to use my software due to an exception that occures whenever a command to add ...
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Availbility of certutil on different Windows versions
I am a bit confused about certutil.exe. I have read the information in the link Server 2012/Windows 8 certutil documentation:
Certutil.exe is a command-line program that is installed as part of ...
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certmgr.exe does not work expectedly in command line mode?
I'm trying to run the MSDN's sample about WCF basic message security using Certificate. In the setup.bat file, there is this line of command:
certmgr.exe -add -r LocalMachine -s My -c -n %SERVER_NAME%...
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Removing one of two certificates with equal nicknames
I have two certificates installed:
kirrun@kirNote ~ [1197]% certutil -d sql:/home/kirrun/.pki/nssdb -L
Certificate Nickname Trust Attributes
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