Netscape Certificate Management System 6.0, Manual

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Manual Authentication
Chapter 1 Authentication Plug-in Modules 21
Manual Authentication
Manual authentication refers to operations which must be approved by a CMS
agent, where no automated operation is possible. That is, a real person must log in
to approve or reject request. By default, Certificate Management System provides
manual-enrollment forms that enable you to request many types of certificates
from the server. For details, see “Enrollment Forms” on page 53.
Note that the manual authentication method is hardcoded; you cannot configure it
in any other way. This ensures that when the server receives requests that lack
authentication credentials, it sends those requests to the request queue for agent
approval. It also means that if you don’t configure a Certificate Manager or
Registration Manager for any other authentication method, the server
automatically sends all certificate-related requests to a queue where they await
agent approval.
Figure 1-2 illustrates how the manual authentication method works during
certificate enrollment.
Figure 1-2
Manual authentication of end entities during certificate enrollment