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Configuring the Server's Security Preferences
Save your changes and close the file.
5.
Start the server; see "Starting, Stopping, and Restarting CMS Instances" on
6.
page 254.
Getting an SSL Client Certificate for a
Subsystem
By default, the Certificate Manager uses its SSL server certificate for SSL client
authentication to the publishing directory.
If you want the Certificate Manager to use another certificate for authenticating to
the publishing directory, you can do so. This section provides instructions for
requesting and installing an SSL client certificate for a Certificate Manager and
configuring it to use that certificate for SSL client authentication to the publishing
directory.
Log in the CMS console, see "Logging Into the CMS Console" on page 247.
1.
Select the Configuration tab, and then select the Encryption tab.
2.
Click the Certificate Setup Wizard button to launch the wizard, which is
3.
explained in "Certificate Setup Wizard" on page 298.
Select the option to request a certificate and then follow the on-screen prompts
4.
to generate a certificate request for the client certificate—in the Certificate
Selection window, select
associated text field.
Once you have the certificate request ready, submit it to a CA so that it can
5.
issue a certificate. For general instructions to use the wizard to request a
certificate, see section "Using the Wizard to Request a Certificate" on page 299.
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Netscape Certificate Management System Administrator's Guide • February 2003
To change the certificate used for authenticating to the administration
interface, Netscape Console, edit the value assigned to the
servercertnickname
parameter in the
id="admin"
and specify
Other
client
section.
as the certificate type in the
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