Configuration Parameters Of Policymappingsext - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 4.5 - PLUG-IN Manual

PolicyMappingsExt Plug-in Module
The policy mappings extension policy in Certificate Management System allows
setting of the policy mappings extension as defined in its X.509 definition. The
policy allows you to map policy statements of one CA to that of another by pairing
the OIDs assigned to their policy statements. (For information on OIDs, see
Appendix B, "Object Identifiers.") For information on certificate policies, see
"CertificatePoliciesExt Plug-in Module" on page 149.)
Each pair is defined by two parameters,
subjectDomainPolicy
issuerDomainPolicy
The issuing CA's users may accept an
applications. The policy mapping tells these users which policies associated with
the subject CA are equivalent to the policy they accept.
During installation, Certificate Management System automatically creates an
instance of the policy mappings extension policy. See "PolicyMappingsExt Rule"
on page 229.

Configuration Parameters of PolicyMappingsExt

In the CMS configuration file, the
ca.Policy.impl.PolicyMappingsExt.class=com.netscape.certsrv.
policy.PolicyMappingsExt
In the CMS window, the module is identified as
shows how the configurable parameters for the module are displayed in the CMS
window.
Figure 4-24
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. The pairing indicates that the issuing CA considers the
equivalent to the
PolicyMappingsExt
.
Parameters defined in the PolicyMappingsExt module
issuerDomainPolicy
subjectDomainPolicy
issuerDomainPolicy
module is identified as
PolicyMappingsExt
and
of the subject CA.
for certain
. Figure 4-24