GLOBUS-UPDATE-CERT(8)

✨ GLOBUS-UPDATE-CERT(8) ✨

okay bestie, come sit with me 💖 this is the manual page for globus-update-certificate-dir, from the Grid Community Toolkit Manual. it's a lil tool that fixes your symlinks and honestly? it's giving maintenance-era icon. let's get into it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

globus-update-certificate-dir — update symlinks in the trusted CA directory 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

globus-update-certificate-dir -help

globus-update-certificate-dir [-d DIRECTORY]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea ☕. The globus-update-certificate-dir program creates symlinks between files — and the files in question are:

• CA certificates
• certificate revocation lists
• signing policy
• certificate request configuration files

…and it does that using the certificate hash the installed version of OpenSSL uses. iykyk 🔥

now the DRAMA: OpenSSL 1.0.0 uses a different name hashing algorithm than previous versions 😭 so CA distributions that were created with older versions of OpenSSL might not be able to locate trusted CAs and related files. it's giving "my old links don't work anymore" energy fr fr.

the fix? run globus-update-certificate-dir against a trusted CA directory and it will add symlinks to the files to the hash if needed. literally that's it. slay. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -help — displays a help message to standard output and exits. simple. iconic. 🫶
• -d DIRECTORY — create links in the trusted CA directory DIRECTORY instead of using the default search path. so if you wanna point it somewhere specific, this is your girl 💅

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

the following variables affect the execution of globus-update-certificate-dir: 👀

• X509_CERT_DIR — default trusted certificate directory. 🍓
• HOME — path to the current user's home directory. 🏠
• GLOBUS_LOCATION — path to the Globus installation. 🧚

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright © 1999-2014 University of Chicago 💜

bestie reminder: every option, every env var, every file type, every version number above is exactly what the page says. no cap. don't let anyone tell you otherwise 🙈

Grid Community Toolkit 6 🌟 03/31/2018 — and that's the whole page, periodt 💖 bye bestie, go update those symlinks, you got this 🦋✨