# 3rd party CA problems/Questions **URL:** \ **Category:** General Questions\ **Created:** [June 18, 2022, 9:59am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/3rd-party-ca-problems-questions/592 "2022-06-18T09:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
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You will find some awesome content here. > [@Creating Endpoint with your own Certificate Authority](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/creating-endpoint-with-your-own-certificate-authority/433/12): > > Ok. The video is below. The key is the name of the identity. It needed to follow the “[caName]-[commonName]” format or else it wouldn’t connect. Also the api paths were no longer valid. Good luck - hopefully this helps [[Using 3rd Party CAs with Ziti CLI, and ZAC] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USMim65c4ic) Here are the full instruction set - it’s quite long and ‘dense’… [Edited - ZITI\_PKI] # generate a new CA ca\_name="new\_ca\_$(date +"%H%M%S")" ca\_dir=${ZITI\_PKI}/$ca\_name echo "New CA is named : ${ca\_name}" echo "New CA d… --- _[View the full topic](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/3rd-party-ca-problems-questions/592)._