Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.01 Installation And Setup Manual page 247

To submit your certificate request manually to a third-party CA, follow these
steps:
Make sure that the certificate request (including
a.
CERTIFICATE REQUEST -----
is highlighted, and click the Copy to Clipboard button.
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This action copies the certificate request to the clipboard. In addition to the
copy on the clipboard, the screen informs you that the certificate request
has been saved to a file. You can use either the copy on the clipboard or the
copy in the file to transfer your request to the CA that will issue the
Registration Manager's SSL server certificate.
Submit your certificate request to a third-party CA, following the
b.
instructions provided by that CA.
Click Next when you are ready to proceed to the next screen.
SSL Server Certificate Installation. Depending on whether you have the
21.
certificate ready for pasting into the Installation Wizard screen, click Yes or No.
If you have submitted your request to a third-party CA or to a remote
Certificate Manager for which you do not have agent privileges, you may
have to wait days or weeks before you receive the certificate. In this case,
you should click No, continue as far as you can with the configuration, and
resume after you receive the certificate. The default is No.
Select Yes, only if you have the certificate ready in its base-64 encoded
format.
Click Next to continue.
If you selected Yes, the "Location of Certificate" screen appears (Step 22).
If you selected No, you will be presented with the "Create Single Signon
Password" screen (Step 25).
Location of Certificate. Specify the location of the certificate. You can use any
22.
of these options:
If you copied the encoded certificate to a file, select the "The certificate is
located in this file" option and then type the file path, including the
filename, in the text field.
If you copied the certificate to the clipboard, select the "The certificate is
located in the text area below" option and then paste in a base-64 encoded
certificate (including the header and footer) in the text area provided.
Stage 2. Running the Installation Wizard
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