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Description of parameters defined in the UidPwdPinDirAuth module (Continued)
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Parameter
pinAttr
dnpattern
Description
Specifies the authentication directory attribute for PINs. If you used the PIN
Generator utility (provided with Certificate Management System), the attribute
is specified by the value of the objectclass parameter; the default value for
this parameter is pin. For details, see section "Arguments" in Chapter 4, "PIN
Generator Tool" of CMS Command-Line Tools Guide.
Permissible values: Any valid attribute name.
Example: pin
Specifies a string representing a subject name pattern to formulate from the
directory attributes and entry DN.
Permissible values: Any valid DN string composed from standard DN
attributes, which must be separated by commas; see "DNs in Certificate
Management System" on page 312.
The syntax is illustrated in the following example:
E=$attr.mail.1, CN=$attr.cn, OU=$dn.ou.2, O=$dn.o, C=US
This sample configuration specifies that the subject name should be
formulated as follows:
• E = the first mail LDAP attribute value in the user's entry
• CN = the (first) cn LDAP attribute value in the user's entry
• OU = the second ou value in the user's entry DN
• O = the (first) o value in the user's entry DN
• C = the string US
If this parameter value is empty or not set, the server uses E=$attr.mail,
CN=$attr.cn, O=$dn.o, C=$dn.c as the DN pattern.
This default DN pattern works well with Netscape Communicator and other
browsers. For Communicator, if you leave out E= in end-user certificates,
S/MIME may not work correctly (assuming lack of other extensions in the
certificate). Also, if C= and O= are left out, certificate display looks strange in
Communicator (when the Display Certificate button is clicked).
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