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110 Certificates and Client Authentication
Generating client certificates
Before issuing client certificates, you should establish the means of
validating the identities of the users. The credentials users need to present
to obtain a client certificate may vary, depending on the type of service, the
size of your organization, and so on.
Step
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Action
Specify a CA certificate by index number to use for
generating a client certificate, and generate the client
certificate.
In this example certificate number 1 is specified for generating a
client certificate. The private key corresponding with the public
key in the certificate you specify is used for signing the client
certificate.
>> Main# cfg/cert
Enter certificate number: (1-) 1
>> Certificate 1# gensigned
Type of certificate (server/client) [client]: <press
ENTER for client certificate>
The combined length of the following parameters may not
exceed 225 bytes.
Country Name (2 letter code):
State or Province Name (full name):
Locality Name (e.g., city):
Organization Name (e.g., company):
Organizational Unit Name (e.g., section):
Common Name (e.g., your name or your server's
hostname):
Email Address:
Subject alternative name (blank or comma separated list
of
URI:<uri>, DNS:<fqdn>, IP:<ip-address>, email:<email
-address>):
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