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How to renew a user certificate

  1. if you got an email with that content, this manual will help you to renew your user certificate:
  2. click on 'Request or renew user certificate using Mozilla browser'
  3. enter your password and birth date and click 'Next'
  4. click 'Submit'
  5. click on 'Install this certificate'
  6. click 'List and revoke certificates'
  7. check if the new certificate is there: 2 new entries with the new certificate expiration date
  8. choose the firefox menu Edit→Preferences, Advanced, 'View Certificates'
  9. delete the old certificate
  10. backup the new certificate somewhere with the name 'cert.pem.p12'
  11. do
     openssl pkcs12 -in myCertificate.pks -clcerts -nokeys -out usercert.pem
  12. do
     openssl pkcs12 -in myCertificate.pks -nocerts -out userkey.pem
  13. remove the files usercert.pem and userkey.pem from .globus directory locally and on lxplus
  14. copy the new files usercert.pem and userkey.pem to the .globus directory locally and on lxplus
grid/usercert.1277294946.txt.gz · Last modified: 2010/06/23 14:09 by abuechle