[Ham-Mac] Tranferring tqsl cert from a PC

[John E Bastin]

On Feb 3, 2004, at 9:26 PM, Marty Ray wrote:

> Okay, I'm making headway, I think. I did the Unix thing and found the 
> path. (thanks for the unix refresher!)
>
> I then went the finder route and placed the certificate in the 
> directory tqsl-cert was looking in. However, when I went back through 
> the steps to open a certificate in tqsl-cert, I couldn't figure out 
> how to specify the "/martyray/.tqsl/keys/" path. So I made a copy and 
> put it on my desktop, opened tqsl-cert, and selected the desktop-tq6. 
> I got the same message, even though there was a  tq6  in the correct 
> path.

OK, I've got the answer. Since this wasn't working, I downloaded the 
Mac TQSL software and installed it again.

You said, IIRC, that you are moving your existing certificate file from 
a PC. I tried the same thing you did, bringing over the .tq6 file from 
the PC, and I had exactly the same experience.

The other option in TQSLCert is to load a .p12 file, which is a 
certificate file saved from the TQSLCert program. On the PC, open 
TQSLCert, select the certificate that you want to move in the window, 
and in the Certificate menu select "Save." You will be asked to create 
a password for the saved file. Then you will be asked for your existing 
key password. Then it will save a file at the destination you choose, 
with a .p12 suffix.

Take THAT file to the Mac, open TQSLCert and tell it you want to load a 
file. In the window, select the option to load a .p12 file. You'll go 
through the same password routine again, and then it will load the 
certificate file for you. After that, you should be set to go.

Hope this helps.

J o h n   B a s t i n           K 8 A J S
jbastin@sssnet.com         K8AJS@arrl.net
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