Setup guide

Chapter 1 Command-Line Tools 15
The Certificate Database Tool (certutil), Netscape Signing Tool (signtool), SSL
DebuggingTool(
ssltap), and Security Database Tool (modutil)areapartof
Network S ecurity Services (NSS) tools. The remaining tools are CMS-specific tools.
•The
AtoB, BtoA, PrettyPrintCert, PrettyPrintCrl,anddumpasn1 tools are
useful for converting back and forth between various encodings and formats
you may encounter when dealing wi th keys and certificates.
• The Password Cache Utility can be used to manipulate the contents of an
existing single sign-on password cache and to create a new cache.
• The PIN G enerator tool is used to create PINs for directory authentication.
• The Certificate and Key Database Tool andSecurity Module Database Tool are
useful fora variety ofadministrativetasksthatinvolvemanipulating certificate
and key databases.
• The Netscape Signing Tool can be used to associate a digital signature with any
file, including CMS log files.
• The SSL Debugging Tool is useful for testing and debugging purposes.
If you find any problems with NSS tools, you may obtain the source code and build
instructions for the very latest version of these tools (and/or potentially a binary
image for the newer tool) at the following URL:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools/index.html
bin/base/jre/bin/jre
bin/cert/jre/bin/jre
Java runtime executable for Netscape Console.
Java runtime executable for Certificate Management System.
Note that the CMS jre is invoked as cms_daemon during CMS
installation and configuration, a s cms_watchdog to monitor the
status of the CMS server, and as cms_server to actually run the
CMS server.
bin/cert/tools/unzip Decompression utility executable.
bin/cert/tools/zip Compression utility executable.
install/perl perl scripting language executable.
Table 1-1 Summary of command-line utilities (Continued)
Utility/Tool Function