IPSEC-IMPORT(8)

✨ IPSEC-IMPORT 💅

okay bestie, welcome to ipsec-import, section 8 of the manual pages — that's the Executable programs girlies, iykyk 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ipsec-import — bestie this is THE girl that imports PKCS#12 (*.p12) files into your IPsec NSS database. no cap, that's her whole job 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ipsec import [--nssdir /var/lib/ipsec/nss] /path/to/certificate.p12

so like, you run ipsec import, optionally you tell her where the NSS dir lives with --nssdir, and you always hand her the actual <italic>/path/to/certificate.p12</italic> at the end. she's not doing it without her file, periodt 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the whole vibe here: importing PKCS#12 files 🍓 straight into the IPsec NSS database, and that database lives at the ipsec NSS data directory — default is /var/lib/ipsec/nss, that's the one she goes to unless you tell her otherwise ✨

that's literally it, she ate and left no crumbs 😭👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group came out for this one, not a single girlie missed the party 🫶:

• ipsec.conf(5)
• ipsec(8)
• ipsec-add(8)
• ipsec-algparse(8)
• ipsec-briefconnectionstatus(8)
• ipsec-briefstatus(8)
• ipsec-certutil(8)
• ipsec-checkconfig(8)
• ipsec-checknflog(8)
• ipsec-checknss(8)
• ipsec-connectionstatus(8)
• ipsec-crlutil(8)
• ipsec-delete(8)
• ipsec-down(8)
• ipsec-ecdsasigkey(8)
• ipsec-fetchcrls(8)
• ipsec-fipsstatus(8)
• ipsec-globalstatus(8)
• ipsec-initnss(8)
• ipsec-letsencrypt(8)
• ipsec-listall(8)
• ipsec-listcacerts(8)
• ipsec-listcerts(8)
• ipsec-listcrls(8)
• ipsec-listen(8)
• ipsec-listpubkeys(8)
• ipsec-modutil(8)
• ipsec-newhostkey(8)
• ipsec-ondemand(8)
• ipsec-pk12util(8)
• ipsec-pluto(8)
• ipsec-purgeocsp(8)
• ipsec-redirect(8)
• ipsec-replace(8)
• ipsec-rereadall(8)
• ipsec-rereadcerts(8)
• ipsec-rereadsecrets(8)
• ipsec-restart(8)
• ipsec-route(8)
• ipsec-rsasigkey(8)
• ipsec-setup(8)
• ipsec-showhostkey(8)
• ipsec-showroute(8)
• ipsec-showstates(8)
• ipsec-shuntstatus(8)
• ipsec-start(8)
• ipsec-status(8)
• ipsec-stop(8)
• ipsec-trafficstatus(8)
• ipsec-unroute(8)
• ipsec-up(8)
• ipsec-vfychain(8)
• ipsec-whack(8)

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💀 BUGS 💀

none

(no bugs?? we LOVE a flawless queen, she's giving zero notes, 10/10 no notes 🙈✨)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

the icons who built her, showing up in this exact order like a girl group lineup 🎤:

Andrew Cagney, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, D. Hugh Redelmeier, Paul Wouters, Tuomo Soini

absolute legends, every single one, no debate allowed 💜

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and that's the page bestie!! this whole thing is from Libreswan 5.4.1 🌈 and it was written down on 10/23/2026 — screenshot it, save it, slay it, and go import that *.p12 💖🎀🦋