Signing the personal certificate request using the Certificate Authority

The Certificate Authority needs to sign the personal certificate request.

About this task

Copy the certificate request from Deployment Manager's file system to the file system of the Certificate Authority for signing.

Procedure

  1. Copy the certificate request file, for example, MyNewCertRequest, from the Deployment Manager's file system to the file system of the Certificate Authority.
  2. Browse to the directory of the Certificate Authority.
  3. Sign the certificate using the following command:

    openssl ca -config openssl.cnf -notext -out signed_request_output_name -infiles certificate_request_name

    For example:

    openssl ca -config openssl.cnf -notext -out myNewCertSigned -infiles myNewCertRequest

Results

The newly signed request is in the Certificate Authority directory.