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How to Install a Trusted Root CA certificate on OSX Leopard for use with Messenger for Macintosh.

Add private certificate to the x509 Anchors keychain

1. Open keychain access application.

a. Use finder and find the HDD/Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app file and
start the application.

2. Add the X509 Anchors to the view, it is not in the view by default.

a. File menu
b. Add keychain

i. Open HDD/System/Library/Keychains/X509Anchors
ii. Caution not to use the HDD/Library/Keychain the file is not there.

3. Import the certificate into the X509 Anchors

a. Highlight X509 Anchors

Import the Root Certificate or Chain
b. Choose File->Import Items

c. Browse to find your Root CA certificates files you need to add then choose open.

d. Password prompt for root access

e. Pop up asking if you want to trust the certificate

f. Click Always Trust

Michael Wagner

Support Escalation Engineer

Published Wednesday, March 05, 2008 7:45 PM by ocsteam
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Trapper said:

This issue has befuddled a ton of folks and I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out a scripted solution. Here's how I eventually scripted the deployment of the cert. In this example, the cert.cer file is on the Mac's local drive. Apple appears to say that the security tool has been superseded by the certtool in 10.5 but certtool doesn't have the ability to trust the cert, just to import it.

Sudo su
security add-trusted-cert -d -k /system/library/keychains/x509anchors /folder/cert.cer

Good luck...
December 3, 2008 11:43 AM
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