Creating Symlinks Using the Certlink Utility - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

Security Administration

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.10
Published
July 2021
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2022-02-15
dita:mapPath
ppz1593203596223.ditamap
dita:ditavalPath
wrg1590696035526.ditaval
dita:id
B035-1100
lifecycle
previous
Product Category
Teradata Vantage™
The certlink utility provides an automated method of creating symlinks based on certificate hashes. TDGSS software includes the certlink utility in:
  • On Teradata Vantage: /opt/teradata/tdgss/bin/certlink
  • On Unity: See Teradata® Unity™ Installation, Configuration, and Upgrade Guide for Customers, B035-2523 for the recommended location on Unity servers.

To create symlinks based on certificate hashes using the certlink utility:

  1. From the site/ssl/cacerts directory that contains the two pem files, enter the following command to hash the files:
    certlink .
  2. The command produces output similar to:
    dlopldap:~ # certlink .
    dlopldap.pem => c5fc7afc.0
    YaST-CA.pem => 9a135280.0
    dlopldap:~ #
The example output shows that certlink created two symlink files:
  • c5fc7afc.0
  • 9a135280.0
These symlinks point to the .pem files:
  • dlopldap.pem
  • YaST-CA.pem

See Example: Certificate Chain for an example.