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Jostan Murray
Jostan Murray

Reputation: 13

SSL wildcard certificate thumbprint

I'm trying to store the thumbprint in a variable by executing

$thumbprint = (Get-ChildItem -path cert:\localmachine\my | where {$_.Subject -like "*.contoso.com."}).Thumbprint

I seem to capture two thumbprints one for the ssl wildcard certificate and the client/server authentication certificate.

I only want to capture the ssl wildcard certificate

$thumbprint = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

What am I missing here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 647

Answers (1)

Jake Bruun
Jake Bruun

Reputation: 1323

The * character in your filter is a wildcard that is matching more than just the asterisk character. Try modifying your filter to use -eq. Perhaps something like the following:

... | where { $_.Subject -eq "CN=*.contoso.com." }

Or, if this is within a script you can escape the * with a single backtick. If run from the command line, escape it with a double backtick. As per the documentation for Supporting Wildcard Characters in Cmdlet Parameters.

... | where { $_.Subject -like "``*.contoso.com." }

Upvotes: 2

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