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How to renew a user certificate
if you got an email with that content, this manual will help you to renew your user certificate:

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click on 'Request or renew user certificate using Mozilla browser'
enter your password and birth date and click 'Next'

click 'Submit'

click on 'Install this certificate'
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click 'List and revoke certificates'

check if the new certificate is there: 2 new entries with the new certificate expiration date

choose the firefox menu Edit→Preferences, Advanced, 'View Certificates'

delete the old certificate

backup the new certificate somewhere with the name 'cert.pem.p12'
do
openssl pkcs12 -in myCertificate.pks -clcerts -nokeys -out usercert.pem
do
openssl pkcs12 -in myCertificate.pks -nocerts -out userkey.pem
remove the files usercert.pem and userkey.pem from .globus directory locally and on lxplus
copy the new files usercert.pem and userkey.pem to the .globus directory locally and on lxplus