Using The Built-In Root Certificate Module - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.0 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

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Choose:
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Migrate 3.X Certificates link from the Administration Server
Migrate Certificate link from the Server Manager.
Enter the 3.6 Server Root.
3.
Enter the Alias.
4.
Enter the Password.
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Click OK.
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For the Server Manager, click Apply, and then Restart for changes to take
7.
effect.

Using the Built-in Root Certificate Module

The dynamically loadable root certificate module included with Enterprise Server
6.0 contains the root certificates for many CAs, including VeriSign. The root
certificate module allows you to upgrade your root certificates to newer versions in
a much easier way than before. In the past, you were required to delete the old root
certificates one at a time, then install the new ones one at a time. To install
well-known CA certificates, you can now simply update the root certificate module
file to a newer version as it becomes available through future versions of Enterprise
Server or in Service Packs.
Because the root certificate is implemented as a PKCS#11 cryptographic module,
you can never delete the root certificates it contains, and the option to delete will
not be offered when managing these certificates. To remove the root certificates
from your server instances, you can disable the root certificate module by deleting
the following in the server's
(on most UNIX platforms)
libnssckbi.so
(on HP-UX)
libnssckbi.sl
(on NT)
nssckbi.dll
If you later wish to restore the root certificate module, you can copy the extension
from
bin/https/lib
subdirectory.
You can modify the trust information of the root certificates. The trust information
is written to the certificate database for the server instance being edited, not back to
the root certificate module itself.
file:
alias
(UNIX and HP) or
bin\https\bin
Migrating Certificates When You Upgrade
(NT) back into the
Chapter 5
Securing Your Enterprise Server
alias
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