Red Hat 8.1 Command-Line Tools Guide Certificate System Reference guide

Below you will find brief information for Certificate System 8.1 Command-Line Tools Guide. This guide will be useful when configuring instances, including Certificate Authorities, Registration Authorities, Certificate Revocation Lists, and Token Key Servers, to help you create, remove, and manage subsystem instances and keys and certificates.

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Key features

  • Create and remove instances

  • Manage subsystem instances and keys and certificates

  • Configure Certificate Authorities, Registration Authorities, CRLs, and Token Key Servers

  • Generate unique PINs

  • Convert data between ASCII and binary formats

  • Print certificates and CRLs

Frequently asked questions

Red Hat Certificate System 8.1 includes a number of command-line tools for creating, removing, managing, and configuring subsystem instances. These tools include pkicreate, pkisilent, pkiremove, TokenInfo, sslget, AuditVerify, setpin, AtoB, BtoA, PrettyPrintCert, PrettyPrintCrl, tkstool, CMCRequest, CMCEnroll, CMCResponse, CMCRevoke, CRMFPopClient, ExtJoiner, GenExtKeyUsage, GenIssuerAltNameExt, SubjectAltNameExt, HttpClient, OCSPClient, PKCS10Client, PKCS12Export, revoker, and tpsclient.

To create a new CA instance, use the pkicreate command with the following options: -pki_instance_root=/directory/path, -subsystem_type=ca, -pkiinstance_name=instance_ID, -secure_port=SSLport, -unsecure_port=port, -tomcat_server_port=port, -user=user_name, -group=group_name. You can also specify the locations for the configuration and log files. For example, to create a new CA instance named pki-ca2 in the /var/lib/pki-name/pki-ca2 directory, run the following command: pkicreate -pki_instance_root=/var/lib -subsystem_type=ca pki_instance_name=pki-ca2 -secure_port=9543 -unsecure_port=9080 tomcat_server_port=1802 -user=pkiuser -group=pkiuser -verbose.

The pkisilent tool is used for silent configuration of a new subsystem instance. It is a Perl wrapper script that uses Java classes to perform a silent installation. To use pkisilent, first download the tool and save it to any location. Then, execute the script with the Configuretype option and any other necessary options. For example, to configure a new CA instance, run the following command: pkisilent ConfigureCA -cs_hostname=hostname -cs_port=port -subsystem_name=instance_name.

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