Adding a signer certificate to a keystore
Signer certificates establish the trust relationship in SSL communication. You can extract the signer part of a personal certificate from a keystore, and then you can add the signer certificate to other keystores.
Before you begin
Alternative Method: To
add a signer certificate to a keystore by using the wsadmin tool,
use the addSignerCertificate command of the AdminTask object.
For more information, see the SignerCertificateCommands command group
for the AdminTask object article.
Note: If the security custom
property com.ibm.websphere.security.OverwriteAndReplaceOnImport is
set to 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 that is being imported. The
task also replaces all signer certificates from the original certificate
and replaces them with the signer certificate from the new certificate
that is being imported
About this task
Procedure
- Click Security > SSL certificate and key management > Key stores and certificates.
- Select a keystore from the list of keystores.
- Click Signer certificates.
- Click 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.