Netscape Certificate Management System 6.2, Administrator'S Manual

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Installing a Certificate Manager
104 Netscape Certificate Management System Administrator’s Guide • June 2003
IX.
When the certificate is displayed, scroll down to the base-64 encoded
version of the certificate, highlight all the text (including
-----BEGIN
CERTIFICATE -----
and
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
), and copy it
to the clipboard or to a text file.
Be sure to not make any changes to the certificate. You’re required to
paste the encoded certificate into the Installation Wizard screen next.
So, once you’ve copied the certificate, go back to the wizard screen
(Step 20).
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To submit your certificate request manually to a remote Certificate
Manager, follow these steps:
I.
Open a web browser window.
II.
Go to the end-entity URL for the remote Certificate Manager that will
issue the subordinate CA’s signing certificate.
For example, if you assigned the port number 17006 to the non-SSL
end-entity port for your root CA, you would go to the URL
http://<hostname>:17006
to bring up the Certificate Manager page
for end entities.
III.
Click Manual Certificate Manager Signing Certificate Enrollment.
In the resulting form, choose the request type from the pull down
menu, paste the request into the request field, and fill in the other
information in the form.
IV.
Click Submit.
V.
The request gets added to the agent queue of the remote Certificate
Manager for approval by that Certificate Manager’s agent. If you’ve
permission to access that Certificate Manager’s Agent interface, you
can follow the instructions below to issue the certificate. Otherwise,
you’ll have to wait till the remote Certificate Manager’s agent
approves your request.
VI.
In the web browser window, enter the URL for the remote Certificate
Manager’s Agent Services page. (You must have a valid agent’s
certificate.)
VII.
Select List Requests, then click Show Pending Requests and click Find.
VIII.
In the pending request list, locate your request, click Details to see the
request, and make any changes. Then, scroll down to the bottom of the
form, and click Do It.
IX.
After the certificate is generated, click Show Certificate.