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How To Create a Self Signed Certificate in Azure using Cloud Shell

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OrinThomas
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Apr 30, 2019
Often we need self signed certificates when spinning up test apps or other workload in Azure. Rather than mucking about with makecert.exe and uploading the relevant certificate files to Azure or conf...
Updated Apr 30, 2019
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Balaji G
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Sep 28, 2021

Hi OrinThomas Tony Roth Guy Derenoncourt II thomaslevesque 

 

Could you please help me below?

 

Issue: I have ran the openssl command for self signed certificate in CLOUDSHELL. But unable to download file with pfx format in CLOUDSHELL

 

Need assistance on file share - self signed certificate creation - file download from cloud shell - No such directory found

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I have ran the following command to export certificate with .pfx and not able to download it

Can you please help me with it?

 

How to download pfx certificate in cloudshell?


Storage account name: https://deletemlworksp.file.core.windows.net/azurefiletestcloudshelldelete/.cloudconsole

command:

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openssl req -x509 -sha256 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout privateKey.key -out selfsigncertwithpwd01.crt

openssl pkcs12 -export -out selfsigncert.pfx -inkey privateKey.key -in selfsigncertwithpwd01.crt

 

 

output

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PS /home/user1> cp * ./cloudrive/.
/usr/bin/cp: target './cloudrive/.' is not a directory
PS /home/user1> cp * ./user1
/usr/bin/cp: target './user1' is not a directory
PS /home/user1> cp * ./cloudconsole
/usr/bin/cp: target './cloudconsole' is not a directory
PS /home/user1> cp * ./cloudconsole/.
/usr/bin/cp: target './cloudconsole/.' is not a directory
PS /home/user1> cp * https://deletemlworksp.file.core.windows.net/azurefiletestcloudshelldelete/.cloudconsole
/usr/bin/cp: target 'https://deletemlworksp.file.core.windows.net/azurefiletestcloudshelldelete/.cloudconsole' is not a directory
PS /home/user1>