Step E. Revoke The Certificate - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 4.5 Installation And Setup Manual
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Configuring Certificate Manager to Publish to Files
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Step E. Revoke the Certificate
To check whether the Certificate Manager is configured correctly to publish CRLs
to flat files, you need to revoke the certificate you issued. Before revoking the
certificate, make sure that you've configured the Certificate Manager to publish the
CRL every time a certificate is revoked. (In "Step D. Specify CRL Details" on
page 674, if you didn't configure the Certificate Manager to publish the CRL every
time a certificate is revoked, go back to the Revocation List tab and check the
"Every time a certificate is revoked or taken off-hold" option. After the testing,
remember to go back to the same tab and uncheck the option.)
To revoke the certificate:
Go back to the end-entity interface for the Certificate Manager (or to a
1.
Registration Manager that's connected to this Certificate Manager. Be sure to
go to the HTTPS interface; the revocation feature is not available in the HTTP
interface.
Click the Revocation tab.
2.
In the left frame, click User Certificate.
3.
The User Certificate Revocation form appears.
In the Revocation Reason section, select Unspecified and click Submit.
4.
The browser displays the "Select a Certificate" dialog box and prompts you to
choose the certificate you want to revoke.
Select the certificate you downloaded and click OK.
5.
The certificate is revoked.
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For example, if the base-64 encoded certificate is in
C:\certificates\cert-1234.txt
form of the certificate to be displayed on your screen, the command would
look like this:
PrettyPrintCert.bat C:\certificates\cert-1234.txt
When the conversion is complete, you should see the certificate you issued
in human-readable form.
Compare the output with the certificate you issued; be sure to check the
serial number in the certificate with the one used in the filename.
If everything matches, the Certificate Manager is configured correctly to
publish certificates to files.
and you want the human-readable
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