3Com 3CRWX120695A Command Reference Manual page 390

390 C 13: C
HAPTER RYPTOGRAPHY
C
OMMANDS
Syntax —
crypto ca-certificate {admin | eap | webaaa}
PEM-formatted certificate
— Stores the certificate authority's certificate that signed the
admin
administrative certificate for the WX switch.
The administrative certificate authenticates the WX to 3Com wireless
switch manager (3XWM) or Web Manager.
— Stores the certificate authority's certificate that signed the
eap
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) certificate for the WX switch.
The EAP certificate authenticates the WX to 802.1X supplicants
(clients).
— Stores the certificate authority's certificate that signed the
webaaa
Web AAA certificate for the WX switch.
The Web certificate authenticates the WX to clients who use Web
AAA.
PEM-formatted certificate
certificate authority PKCS #7 certificate, consisting of up to
4096 characters that you have obtained from the certificate authority.
Defaults — None.
Access — Enabled.
History — Introduced in MSS Version 3.0.
Usage — The Privacy-Enhanced Mail protocol (PEM) format is used for
representing a PKCS #7 certificate in ASCII text. PEM uses base64
encoding to convert the certificate to ASCII text, then puts the encoded
text between the following delimiters:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
To use this command, you must already have obtained a copy of the
certificate authority's certificate as a PKCS #7 object file. Then do the
following:
1 Open the PKCS #7 object file with an ASCII text editor such as Notepad
or vi.
2 Enter the crypto ca-certificate command on the CLI command line.
— ASCII text representation of the