{"id":30110,"date":"2021-03-02T11:39:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=30110"},"modified":"2024-06-24T13:07:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T11:07:10","slug":"how-to-install-a-digital-certificate-in-macos","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/faqs\/how-to-install-a-digital-certificate-in-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install a digital certificate in macOS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow these steps to install a digital certificate on any Mac computer:<\/p>\n<p>Double-click a digital certificate in software format (with .p12 or pfx file extension). The operating system will automatically launch the installation wizard. The <em>Mac Keychain<\/em> will start, an application in charge of managing our digital certificates (Keychain Access).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30111 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Anadir_certificados_en_mac_0.png.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Anadir_certificados_en_mac_0.png.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Anadir_certificados_en_mac_0.png-300x190.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before continuing, tell the wizard the Login mode and press the OK button<\/p>\n<p>This password (or PIN) had to be notified by the Certification Services Provider (Certification Authority) that issued it. If it\u2019s a copy backup made by the holder, he must put in the corresponding password created during the export process.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30113 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Avansi_certificacion_mac_0.png.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Avansi_certificacion_mac_0.png.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Avansi_certificacion_mac_0.png-300x194.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If the Certification Service Provider that issued the certificate is previously installed on the operating system as a Trust Service, our certificate is ready for use in <strong>Viafirma<\/strong>. But if that\u2019s not the case, you need to tell the system that you want to trust that issuing entity.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, when opening the \u201dtrust\u201doption, we will have to edit each drop-down section individually selecting the \u201dalways trust\u201d option, or clicking <strong>\u201dAlways trust\u201d<\/strong> directly.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all. This is how your new certificate should appear in the list of installed certificates in your operating system.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30117 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Listado_certificados_mac_0.png.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Listado_certificados_mac_0.png.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Listado_certificados_mac_0.png-300x171.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-30110","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/30110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/30110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}