How can I install certificates?

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Hi again, sorry for the delay and thanks again @linux-aarhus for your time
I have read your possible solution but I don’t know if my explanation was not good or maybe I don’t understand.

Anyway, I was able to build the project at work and I solved the problem. I leave my explanations and steps here:

My project has a .pfx file with a password. The first thing I had to research was where dotnet saves the files. This place is:

~/.dotnet/corefx/cryptography/x509stores/

Reading this link (that I posted before), I saw this code:

using (var store = new X509Store(StoreName.My, StoreLocation.CurrentUser, OpenFlags.ReadWrite))
{
    store.Add(new X509Certificate2(
        "./thePathToTheCert.pfx", "passwordOfTheCert", 
        X509KeyStorageFlags.PersistKeySet));
}

And finally, with this, I understood that the certificates are stored in ~/.dotnet/corefx/cryptography/x509stores/, and the filename is changed to the thumbprint of the .pfx.

I created a bash code doing this process:

importcert() {
    cert_path="$1"
    cert_password="$2"

    thumbprint=$(openssl pkcs12 -in "$cert_path" -passin "pass:$cert_password" -nokeys -nomacver -clcerts | openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint | cut -d'=' -f2 | tr -d ':')

    openssl pkcs12 -in "$cert_path" -passin "pass:$cert_password" -nodes -out ~/.dotnet/corefx/cryptography/x509stores/my/$thumbprint.pfx

    echo "Certificate stored in ~/.dotnet/corefx/cryptography/x509stores/my with the thumbprint: $thumbprint"
}

With this I could solve the first problem. After that I had another problem because I needed another certificate for the browser. I don’t remember exactly this step but I downloaded the certificate from Chrome and I stored in /etc/ssl/certs/ and my website was running perfectly.

I tested this removing the certificates, running the functions and all the things and yes, doing this steps all was working good.

And in my work, all are using Windows and for that I added an if to choose the platform to take the certicate:

var locations = Environment.OSVersion.Platform == PlatformID.Unix
    ? new[] { StoreLocation.CurrentUser }
    : new[] { StoreLocation.LocalMachine, StoreLocation.CurrentUser };

foreach (var location in locations)
{
    using (var store = new X509Store(storeName, location))
    {
        store.Open(OpenFlags.IncludeArchived);

        var cert = store.Certificates
            .OfType<X509Certificate2>()
            .FirstOrDefault(c => string.Equals(c.Thumbprint, thumbprint, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase));

        if (cert != null)
        {
            return cert;
        }
    }
}

In Linux is only the place:

{ StoreLocation.CurrentUser }

but in Windows the places are:

{ StoreLocation.LocalMachine, StoreLocation.CurrentUser }

I hope be clear and sorry again If you told me the same in another words and I didn’t understand.

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