Step 7. Turn On Automated Notification; Step 8. Test Your Authentication Setup - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.01 Installation And Setup Manual

Configuring Authentication for End-User Enrollment
To save your changes, click Save.
4.
The CMS configuration is modified. If the changes you made require you to
restart the server, you will be prompted accordingly. In that case, restart the
server.

Step 7. Turn on Automated Notification

Both the Certificate Manager and the Registration Manager can send
certificate-issuance notification to end users. For details on turning this feature on,
see Chapter 16, "Setting Up Automated Notifications."

Step 8. Test Your Authentication Setup

To test whether your end users can successfully enroll for a certificate using the
authentication method you've set up:
Open a web browser window.
1.
Go to the end-entity interface for the enrollment authority you configured.
2.
The default URL is as follows:
https://<hostname>:<end_entity_HTTPS_port>
http://<hostname>:<end_entity_HTTP_port>
In the Enrollment tab, open the enrollment form you customized.
3.
Fill in all the values and submit the request.
4.
The client prompts you to enter the password for your key database.
5.
When you enter the correct password, the client generates the key pair.
6.
Do not interrupt the key-generation process. Upon completion of the key
generation, the request is submitted to the server for certificate issuance. The
server subjects the request to the currently configured policy rules and issues
the certificate only if the request passes all the policy rules.
Upon receipt of a notification about the certificate issuance, install the
certificate in your browser.
Verify that the certificate is installed in the browser's certificate database; for
7.
example, in Communicator you can open the Security Info window and verify
that the certificate is listed in there.
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