# Passing custom certs to kopia

**URL:** https://kopia.discourse.group/t/passing-custom-certs-to-kopia/656
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 30, 2021, 6:29am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/passing-custom-certs-to-kopia/656 "2021-09-30T06:29:55Z")
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#### Post date: [September 30, 2021, 6:29am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/passing-custom-certs-to-kopia/656/1 "2021-09-30T06:29:55Z")

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Hi,  
I have a minio setup with self-signed certs, how do I use self signed cert from the kopia client?  
From the docs, i see the following but

1. Don’t we need to pass certificates when creating a repository?
2. In the below connect I see an option called server but in my case, I want to connect to s3 with bucket+prefix combination, how do I do it?

```auto
kopia repository connect server --url https://<address>:51515 \
  --server-cert-fingerprint 48537cce585fed39fb26c639eb8ef38143592ba4b4e7677a84a31916398d40f7

```

-Prashanth