NCPA signed certificate and private key question.

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HIINNS
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NCPA signed certificate and private key question.

Post by HIINNS »

Some members of our networking staff were wondering if there was some way that an NCPA agent residing on a Windows server could use certificates from the native Windows Certificate Store, rather than storing a signed certificate and private key in a file folder and modifying the ncpa.cfg file to point to where the signed certificate and private key reside.
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Re: NCPA signed certificate and private key question.

Post by dchurch »

The NCPA configuration currently allows for two settings:
  • certificate = adhoc where it generates a self-signed certificate as-needed, and
  • certificate = [SOME-FILE.crt],[SOME-FILE.key] where it loads a pre-generated certificate from a file
NCPA currently does not support loading certificates from the Windows certificate store. In order to use a certificate from the Windows store, it must be exported to a file.

I can submit a feature request to add a third configuration route if you'd like. Please keep in mind that the decision to implement the enhancement is at the discretion of our development team.

A possible workaround might be to store the certificate and key files on a networked drive, and point the ncpa.cfg path to those files.

See here for more configuration documentation
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