Obtaining Keys and Certificates

At the https://pkg.sun.com site, you can obtain the keys and certificates needed to access packages at pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/support and the pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra repositories.

How to Obtain Keys and Certificates

Before You Begin

A Sun ID and password is required to log in to the pkg.sun.com web site. Register at https://pkg.sun.com and obtain your Sun ID and password, if you do not already them.

The pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/support and the pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/extra repositories are displayed after you have logged in.

1. At the https://pkg.sun.com site, log in with your Sun ID and password.

   The Certificate Requests page is displayed with two repositories: pkg.opensolaris.org/extra and pkg.sun.com/opensolaris/support.

2. Choose the repository that contains the packages you need.

   For the /support repository, you must have a support contract. You will be asked to type your contract ID.

3. The key and certificate are generated for you. Save the key and certificate on your file system to a persistent location. The key and certificate files have the extension .pem.

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   Note - Remember the name and location of the key file and the certificate as you will need them to access certain repositories.

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Example 7-1 How to Save a Key and Certificate on to Your System

In this example the key and certificate files are downloaded to ~/Desktop/ . The files are then saved to a directory /var/pkg/ssl.

$ pfexec mkdir -p /var/pkg/ssl $ pfexec chmod 755 /var/pkg/ssl $ pfexec cp -i ~/Desktop/OpenSolaris_extras.key.pem /var/pkg/ssl/ $ pfexec cp -i ~/Desktop/OpenSolaris_extras.certificate.pem /var/pkg/ssl/

Next Steps

You now can associate your key and certificate with a repository.