Can I retrieve certificate expiry date from an openssl certificate (command line)

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07-21-2006, 10:07 AM	#1
davee Member Registered: Oct 2002 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland Distribution: Suse(home) RHEL (Work) Posts: 263 Rep:	Can I retrieve certificate expiry date from an openssl certificate (command line) I'm trying to set up a monitor of our external web sites to warn me of certificate expiry. Can I use openssl to extract the expiry date from the cert or keyring file? The man page doesn't give a lot away...

07-21-2006, 10:28 AM	#2
davee Member Registered: Oct 2002 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland Distribution: Suse(home) RHEL (Work) Posts: 263 Original Poster Rep:	Found it! /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl x509 -noout -in <certificate> -dates

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