Hello to all, does anyone know of a utility to read the information from an ssl certificate from a command line on an aix or solaris platform. I would like to write a script to capture the expiration date from an ssl cert. If this helps, I am running the iplanet webserver and would like to simply grep out the 'expires on' variable. If only it was this easy. Any help on a utility to read the information is greatly appreciated.
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reading ssl certificate from command line on unix platform
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If you have openssl installed you can use that.
You can view the contents of a particular certificate file in plain text by running the command:
$ openssl x509 -noout -text -in <name>.crt
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You can view the contents of a particular certificate file in plain text by running the command:
$ openssl x509 -noout -text -in <name>.crt
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This is certainly the direction I was looking for! I was able to view the *.crt file. To take this one step further, I am trying to read the *-cert7.db files on iPlanet webservers. I have openssl and openssh3.1 installed. I will be continuning research on this and any/all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks again for this information, it has greatly helped.
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