Finding And Approving A Certificate Request - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.0 Installation And Setup Manual

Follow the instructions your browser presents as it generates a key pair.
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After the key pair has been generated, the Certificate Manager displays a notice
that the certificate request has been submitted, including a request ID.
Use the browser's Back button to go back to the Services Summary page. (For
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example, when using Communicator, press and hold the mouse button while
it's over the Back button, then choose Index from the pop-up menu.)

Finding and Approving a Certificate Request

After following the previous procedure, your browser will be at the Services
Summary page. Follow this procedure to approve the enrollment request you just
submitted. This procedure will issue a certificate from the request that can be used
as an agent certificate.
Click Agent Services, then click Certificate Manager Agent Services.
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To access this page, your browser must present your client SSL certificate to
authenticate your identity.
If a dialog box appears requesting that you select a certificate, select the
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certificate name that begins with
The first form for the Agent Services gateway appears—the List Requests form.
Select "Show enrollment requests" for Request Type.
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Select "Show Pending Requests" for Request status, and then click Find.
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One request should be returned: the request you just made through the SSL
end-user gateway, which is marked as pending.
Click the Details button next to the pending request.
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Scroll down to the last section of the Request Details form, labeled Privileges.
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Select the checkbox labeled "This certificate is for a Certificate Manager agent,"
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then type a user ID for the new agent.
This user ID can be the same (User1) that you specified in the certificate
request, or it can be some other ID that you want to use to identify this agent in
the CMS window of Netscape Console, such as
At the bottom of the form, select "Accept this request" and click Do It.
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The certificate is issued immediately. The Request Details form is replaced by a
form announcing that the certificate has been generated, along with its serial
number.
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