CentOS import SSL certificate

Sometimes for certain applications using ssl cert based verification/encryption it’s usefull to point them to a directory that contains all the certificates

If that can be done directly with a bash script it’s better

There’s a nice script to do it directly, it just need a little modification to run on CentOS:
http://jenders.vox.com/library/post/rtorrent-and-ssl-certificates-under-gentoo-linux.html

The first thing we need is openssl perl package (the one that have c_rehash in it)… you can get it with the command:

yum install openssl-perl

and then, just create the script:

nano -w import.cert.sh

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#!/bin/sh
SITE=somesite.tld
 
openssl s_client -connect $SITE:443 < /dev/null 2>/dev/null | sed -n '/BEGIN CERTIFICATE/,/END CERTIFICATE/p' >> /etc/pki/tls/certs/$SITE.crt
openssl x509 -in /etc/pki/tls/certs/$SITE.crt -out /etc/pki/tls/certs/$SITE.der -outform DER
openssl x509 -in /etc/pki/tls/certs/$SITE.der -inform DER -out /etc/pki/tls/certs/$SITE.pem -outform PEM
c_rehash
unset SITE

make it executable:

chmod +x import.cert.sh

run it:

./import.cert.sh

and you are done, now you can eventually point your application to that certificate repository in case your app didn’t find it itself

for example you should run curl in this way:

curl -I --capath /etc/pki/tls/certs/ https://somesite.tld

Tags: CentOS, curl, ssl