Deploying .pfx Certificates?

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Hi JAMF Nation!

I'm currently attempting to add two certificates to the JSS as OS X Config profiles, both are in a .pfx format. The issues I'm running into is that the JSS keeps saying 'Could not read file'. How do you guys attempt to make a .pfx certs into a Casper readable certificate?

My goal:
1:Deploy cert to System Keychain
2: Make the two .pfx files and the files in it 'Trusted for all users'.

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luisgiraldo
New Contributor II

You should be able to simply change the extension to .p12 and be good to go.

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@luisgiraldo

Renamed it and the JSS still can't read it. I haven't tried putting into Casper Admin yet (not at work).

bentoms
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@Abdiaziz, if you import thr certs into a Macs Keychain... You should then be able to export them in a format that the JSS will take.

I'd then deploy the certs via a profile.

davidacland
Honored Contributor II
Honored Contributor II

Sounds like it might be encoded in an incompatible format. I've used openssl in the terminal to convert in the past:

openssl pkcs12 -in /path/to/file.pfx -out /path/to/new/file.pem -nodes

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Got new certificates in .pfx format, it worked. Something must have been wrong with the originals.