2.2. Client NSS Database Initialization
On Red Hat Certificate System, certain interfaces may need to access the server using TLS client certificate authentication (mutual authentication). Before performing server-side admin tasks, you need to:
- Prepare an NSS database for the client. This can be a new database or an existing one.
- Import the CA certificate chain and trust them.
- Have a certificate and corresponding key. They can be generated in the NSS database or imported from somewhere else, such as from a PKCS #12 file.
Based on the utility, you need to initialize the NSS database accordingly. See: