Netscape Certificate Management System 6.2, Administrator'S Manual

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Chapter 9
Authentication
This chapter discusses the authentication methods available in Netscape Certificate
Management System (CMS) during the enrollment of end entities, and details how
to set up those authentication methods.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Enrollment Overview
• Dual-Key Pairs
• Agent-Approved Enrollment
• Automated Enrollment
• Agent Initiated End User Enrollment
• Certificate-Based Enrollment
• Issuing and Managing Server Certificates
• CEP Enrollment
• Testing Your Enrollment Setup
• Managing Authentication Plug-ins
• Generating Files Required By Third-Party Object Signing Tools
Enrollment Overview
The process of enrolling end-entities involves the end entity submitting a request
(or an agent submitting the request for the end entity), authenticating the
end-entity, and verifying the request.
CMS provides four enrollment methods: