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During the installation of Netscape Certificate Management System (CMS), the
watchdog stores all the passwords required by the server for starting up—such as
passwords for the internal or external tokens, the bind password used by
Certificate Management System to access and update the internal database, the
bind password used by Certificate Management System to access and update the
LDAP directory used for authentication or publishing—in a password cache. The
cache is maintained in a file encrypted using the single sign-on password you
specify during installation.
The command-line utility named
contents of the password cache. You will be required to manipulate the password
cache for various reasons. For example, assume you've configured the Certificate
Manager to publish certificates and CRLs to an LDAP directory and have
configured it to bind to the directory with Directory Manager's DN and password.
If the directory administrator changes the Directory Manager's password, the
Certificate Manager will fail to bind to the directory during startup. You can
resolve this problem by modifying the corresponding bind password in the cache
using the
This chapter has the following sections:
•
Location (page 19)
•
Syntax (page 20)
•
Usage (page 20)
Location
The
PasswordCache
this directory:
utility.
PasswordCache
utility is located with the rest of the command-line tools in
<server_root>/bin/cert/tools
Password Cache Utility
enables you to manipulate the
PasswordCache
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