(DC) [Import] Digital Certificate (Linux)
The following instructions are for the RHEL 7 and related Fedora, CentOS, and Ubuntu installations using a Gnome Desktop GUI. Please note that your experience may vary.
After requesting your certificate and downloading from , you are ready to import it into your operating system's certificate manager.
Find "Passwords and Keys" (seahorse) and open this application.
Navigate to File - Import... and browse to the location of the .p12 file. If you downloaded it from Stache it will likely be in /home/<username>/Downloads.
Select the .p12 file and click Open.
Enter the password provided in Stache.
Click Import when prompted.
Enter the key storage password - this may be the same as your user account password.
Add an appropriate label to the imported key.
The "Passwords and Keys" interface will look like this once the certificate has been imported:
CLI or Other Distros
The following steps may or may not work for you. It is recommended that you perform a internet search for the appropriate method that works for you. Instructions will vary depending on OS distro, version, and more.
If you've downloaded your .p12 file from a browser, you should find your certificate in the Downloads folder. You can use the command below:
$ gnome-keyring import /home/<username>/Downloads/<nameofkey>.p12The methods described in this article (and in this comment) are buggy and may not work for you. Here are some test cases:
RHEL 7 | Yes |
Fedora 22 | No |
Ubuntu 14.04 (VM*) | No |
Ubuntu 14.04 (Hardware*) | Yes |
*Hardware and virtual machine used only to point out that the same ISO was installed on two environments with different results. It is not implied that it works on hardware -vs- a virtual machine.