---
name: "grid-ca-package"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "globus-simple-ca"
version: "5.4-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/grid-ca-package"
---

# grid-ca-package(1)

Prepare a CA certificate, configuration, and policy for distribution

## NAME

grid-ca-package - Prepare a CA certificate, configuration, and policy for distribution

## SYNOPSIS

**grid-ca-sign** \[-ca *HASH*\] \[-g\] \[-b\] \[-r\] \[-d\]

**grid-ca-sign** \[ -help\| -h\| -usage\| -version\| -versions \]

## DESCRIPTION

The **grid-ca-sign** utility creates a tarball containing an RPM spec file and the files needed to use a CA with grid tools.

By default, the **grid-ca-sign** utility displays a list of installed grid CA and prompts for which CA to package. It then creates a tarball containing the CA certificate, signing policy, CA configuration files, and an spec script to generate a binary RPM package containing the CA. If the CA hash is known prior to running **grid-ca-sign**, it may provided as an argument to the *-ca* parameter to avoid prompting.

The **grid-ca-sign** utility writes the package tarballs to the current working directory.

## OPTIONS

The full set of command-line options to **grid-ca-sign** follows:

- **-help, -h, -usage**

  Display the command-line options to **grid-ca-sign** and exit.

- **-version, -versions**

  Display the version number of the **grid-ca-sign** command. The second form includes more details.

- **-ca** *CA*

  Use the CA whose name matches the hash string *CA*. When invoked with this option, **grid-ca-sign** runs non-interactively.

- **-r**

  Create a binary RPM package for the CA. This option currently only works on RPM-based distributions.

- **-d**

  Create a binary Debian package for the CA. This option currently only works on Debian-based distributions.

## EXAMPLES

Package a Simple CA with hash 0146c503.

```
% grid-ca-sign -ca 0146c503
```

```
Creating RPM source tarball... done
globus_simple_ca_0146c503.tar.gz
```

## ENVIRONMENT

The following environment variables affect the execution of **grid-ca-sign**:

GLOBUS\_LOCATION

Non-standard installation path of the Grid Community Toolkit.

## SEE ALSO

[grid-cert-request(1)](/grid-cert-request/1.md), [grid-ca-sign(1)](/grid-ca-sign/1.md), grid-default-ca(1), [grid-ca-create(1)](/grid-ca-create/1.md)

## AUTHOR

Copyright © 1999-2014 University of Chicago