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  <refentryinfo>
    <date>&date;</date>
    <title>Network Security Services</title>
    <productname>nss</productname>
    <productnumber>&version;</productnumber>
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    <refentrytitle>cert8.db</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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  <refnamediv>
    <refname>cert8.db</refname>
    <refpurpose>Legacy NSS certificate database</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

<refsection id="description">
    <title>Description</title>
    <para><emphasis>cert8.db</emphasis> is an NSS certificate database.</para>
  <para>This certificate database is in the legacy database format. Consider migrating to cert9.db and key4.db which are the new sqlite-based shared database format with support for concurrent access.
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  </refsection>

  <refsection>
    <title>Files</title>
    <para><filename>/etc/pki/nssdb/cert8.db</filename></para>
  </refsection>

  <refsection>
    <title>See also</title>
    <para>cert9.db(5), key4.db(5), pkcs11.txt(5), </para>
  </refsection>

  <refsection id="authors">
    <title>Authors</title>
    <para>The nss libraries were written and maintained by developers with Netscape, Red Hat,  Sun, Oracle, Mozilla, and Google.</para>
    <para>Authors: Elio Maldonado &lt;emaldona@redhat.com>.</para>
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  <refsection id="license">
    <title>LICENSE</title>
    <para>Licensed under the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0.  If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
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