Significance Of Password.conf File; Starting Certificate Management System - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.0 Installation And Setup Manual
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Significance of password.conf File
Significance of password.conf File
During CMS installation, the Installation Wizard creates a text file named
password.conf
This file is used for storing plaintext versions of the single sign-on password as
well as all passwords located on external hardware tokens. Before completing the
installation, the wizard gives you the option to retain or remove this text file. If you
opted to retain the file, which is also the default configuration, the file remains
present in the CMS configuration directory with the following permissions
applied:
On UNIX:
(read/write permission for the installer only)
On Windows:
(full permissions for users in the
As explained in the sections that follow, the presence or absence of the
password.conf
Certificate Management System.
Starting Certificate Management System
Once Certificate Management System is installed, it runs constantly, listening for
and accepting requests. You can start Certificate Management System in several
ways.
If the
page 306), Certificate Management System can be started in the following ways
and you will not be prompted to enter any password:
•
From Netscape Console (locally and remotely)
•
From the command line (locally only)
•
On a Windows system, from the Windows Services panel (locally only)
In the absence of the
started in the following ways, and you will be prompted to enter the single sign-on
password:
•
From the command line (locally only)
•
On a Windows system, from the Windows Services panel (locally only)
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in the
<server_root>/cert-<instance_id>/config
chmod 00600 password.conf
cacls password.conf /G Administrators:F
file determines ways in which you can start, restart, and stop
file is present ("Significance of password.conf File" on
password.conf
password.conf
group only)
Administrators
file, Certificate Management System can be
directory.
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