Creating Temporary SSL Server Certificate

Overview

This page describes the process to create a temporary SSL server certificate for a CA.

Enrollment Procedure

To create a temporary certificate execute the following command:

$ pki-server cert-create sslserver --temp

The certificate will be stored in /etc/pki/<instance>/certs/sslserver.crt.

Next, delete the current SSL server certificate from the server’s NSS database:

$ pki-server cert-del sslserver

Then import the temporary certificate into the NSS database:

$ pki-server cert-import sslserver