

Download and install Visual Studio 2010 Express (link below)Ģ. These directions are from the 3rd post down in. This method instead adds the local certificate authority to the list of trusted authorities for each user's cert8.db files.įollow these directions to compile the latest version of the NSS tools yourself. Unfortunately, this will also remove any other trusted certificates on the other computers. One approach would be to trust the CA on one machine and then copy the cert8.db file to all the computers on the domain.

These instructions will enable you to add your local certificate authority as a trusted CA in Firefox for Windows for all of the users in your domain.įirefox stores its trusted certificate information in a file called cert8.db located in each Firefox profile directory in the user folder on that computer. Firefox does not and instead uses it's own certificate store. Internet Explorer has no trouble trusting the local CA because it trusts the local Windows certificate store.

If you have deployed Firefox in your organization and use your local CA to sign SSL certificates for intranet site, you may find that you get an error from Firefox saying that the connection is untrusted.
