Re: Convert Certificates LDAP-compatible without "LDIF"-Command

[Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Hi,

"Tobias Glemser" <tglemser@tele-consulting.com> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> I just wanted to ask, if there is a possibility to 
> publish certificates to OpenLDAP 2.0 easy like in 
> 1.x with the "ldif"-command.
>
> This was possible with this:
> "ldif -b "usercertificate;binary" < outcert.der > cert.ldif",
> as described here
> http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/LDAP-Implementation-HOWTO/certificates.html
>
> The old "lfid"-command did the convertion to LDAP-
> compatible BASE64 encoding and I suggest there
> are other commandline based tools which do the
> same, but I didn't find them.

You may use 'uuencode -m -o output < inputfile' to achive a base64
encoded certificate.

-Dieter  

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