Before you begin
Why and when to perform this task
Use this procedure to add a signer certificate (which includes its public key) into the key database file for a client.
This forms the second stage of copying a certificate from one key database to another. If the client key database already contains the signer certificate of the CA used to sign the certificate that is to be copied, you do not need to add the certificate to the key database. In general, you need to complete this procedure only for a self-signed certificate to support SSL between a client and a server, as in the following cases:
To add a signer certificate to a client key database, complete the following steps:
Steps for this task
What to do next
Continue with the next step in the overview procedure article, Enabling SSL security between a CORBA C++ client and an EJB server.