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During the installation of Netscape Certificate Management System (CMS), the
installation daemon stores all the passwords required by the server for starting
up—such as the bind passwords used by Certificate Management System to access
and update the internal LDAP database and the LDAP directory used for
authentication or publishing—in a password cache. The cache is maintained in a
file encrypted using a symmetric key generated by the cryptographic module
wherein the key resides, and encrypted by the single sign-on password (internal
cryptographic module 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:
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Location
The
this directory:
PasswordCache
Location (page 27)
Syntax (page 28)
Usage (page 28)
utility is located with the rest of the command-line tools in
PasswordCache
<server_root>/bin/cert/tools
Password Cache Utility
PasswordCache
utility.
Chapter 3
enables you to manipulate the
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