I am trying to digitally sign a document in open office writer 2.0, but no certificates are listed. I have pkcs12 (p12) certificates in firefox, mozilla and konqueror, but not in open office.
How do I import the certificates?
kwhiskers wrote:
I am trying to digitally sign a document in open office writer 2.0, but no certificates are listed. I have pkcs12 (p12) certificates in firefox, mozilla and konqueror, but not in open office.
How do I import the certificates?
Whiskers, I don't know the answer, but when I Googled for it yesterday on your other mail I became intrigued myself and am interested in it :-) The OO help was no use and the UI does not allow cert import. Do you use KDE as I do? Possibly there is a special Gnome place for certs that OO assumes you use?
-Andy
On 01/11/05, Andy Green andy@warmcat.com wrote:
kwhiskers wrote:
I am trying to digitally sign a document in open office writer 2.0, but no certificates are listed. I have pkcs12 (p12) certificates in firefox, mozilla and konqueror, but not in open office.
How do I import the certificates?
Whiskers, I don't know the answer, but when I Googled for it yesterday on your other mail I became intrigued myself and am interested in it :-) The OO help was no use and the UI does not allow cert import. Do you use KDE as I do? Possibly there is a special Gnome place for certs that OO assumes you use?
-Andy
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Yes, I use KDE.
I checked out the oooforum.org http://oooforum.org threads on the problem and they claim they have solved it. They say to install the certificate into mozilla, firefox and thunderbird (if installed), and better yet, to install in only one of these and make sympolic links to the others, so as not to have unsyncronized certificate caches. I have done this. I also installed the certificate into konqueror without problem.
However, it is not visible in openoffice 2.0.
Perhaps you're onto something, about gnome putting them somewhere else. I had unconsciously been heading in that direction myself without realizing it, having even put my certificate into /etc/pki/certificatesorsomethingdirectory, thinking that this pki has something to do with certificates, for rpm and yum, I presume, but all to no avail.
I will boot into gnome when I get home and see if I can find something.
Any ideas?
On 01/11/05, kwhiskers kwhiskers@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/11/05, Andy Green andy@warmcat.com wrote:
kwhiskers wrote:
I am trying to digitally sign a document in open office writer 2.0,
but
no certificates are listed. I have pkcs12 (p12) certificates in
firefox,
mozilla and konqueror, but not in open office.
How do I import the certificates?
Whiskers, I don't know the answer, but when I Googled for it yesterday on your other mail I became intrigued myself and am interested in it :-) The OO help was no use and the UI does not allow cert import. Do you use KDE as I do? Possibly there is a special Gnome place for certs that OO assumes you use?
-Andy
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Yes, I use KDE.
I checked out the oooforum.org http://oooforum.org threads on the problem and they claim they have solved it. They say to install the certificate into mozilla, firefox and thunderbird (if installed), and better yet, to install in only one of these and make sympolic links to the others, so as not to have unsyncronized certificate caches. I have done this. I also installed the certificate into konqueror without problem.
However, it is not visible in openoffice 2.0.
Perhaps you're onto something, about gnome putting them somewhere else. I had unconsciously been heading in that direction myself without realizing it, having even put my certificate into /etc/pki/certificatesorsomethingdirectory, thinking that this pki has something to do with certificates, for rpm and yum, I presume, but all to no avail.
I will boot into gnome when I get home and see if I can find something.
Any ideas?
I thought poking around in Gnome might provide a clue. It didn't. The only application that seemed even remotely to have a place for certificates was the keyring manager (that always crashes in kde and is, hence, kind of a mystery to me).
It doesn't crash in gnome, starts up with a mysterious entry called session, and one is told that it is somehow nonstandard and that is all. There is no import facility for certificates or for signatures here.
Then I thought, perhaps look at evolution... Sure enough, evolution will import both gnupg signatures and so-called netscape certificates, ie, pkcs12 files. Worked like a charm, and full of renewed optimism, ran openoffice writer 2.0, and...
Nothing.
Same as before.
kwhiskers wrote:
pkcs12 files. Worked like a charm, and full of renewed optimism, ran openoffice writer 2.0, and...
Nothing.
Same as before.
I am impressed by the high level of security afforded by this certificate dialog, we are unable to even hack our way into it to get it working lol
-Andy
On 02/11/05, Andy Green andy@warmcat.com wrote:
kwhiskers wrote:
pkcs12 files. Worked like a charm, and full of renewed optimism, ran openoffice writer 2.0, and...
Nothing.
Same as before.
I am impressed by the high level of security afforded by this certificate dialog, we are unable to even hack our way into it to get it working lol
-Andy
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I wish someone was using this digital signature system so they could tell us how they are managing to sign their documents.
At 2:05 PM -0700 11/2/05, kwhiskers wrote: ...[OOo 2.0]...
I wish someone was using this digital signature system so they could tell us how they are managing to sign their documents.
Perhaps you should ask your question on an OOo list. It seems more likely that you would find users of OOo features on such a list. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com ' http://www.georgeanelson.com/