Netscape Certificate Management System 6.2, Administrator'S Manual

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Publishers
628 Netscape Certificate Management System Administrator’s Guide • June 2003
Configuring Publishers for LDAP Publishing
The Certificate Manager creates, configures, and enables a set of publishers that are
associated with LDAP publishing as follows:
•
LdapCaCertPublisher
Used to publish Certificate Authrority certificates to
the LDAP directory.
•
LdapCrlPublisher
Used to publish CRLs to the LDAP directory.
•
LdapDeltaCrlPublisher
Used to publish Delta CRLs to the LDAP directory.
•
LdapUserCertPublisher
Used to publish all types of end-entity certificates to
the LDAP directory.
•
LdapCrossCertPairPublisher
Used to publish cross-signed certificates to the
LDAP directory.
The publishers are enabled and configured using the X.500 standard attributes for
storing certificates and CRLs. You do not need to modify the preconfigured
publishers.
See “Publisher Plug-in Module Reference,” on page 628 for more information
about publishers.
Publisher Plug-in Module Reference
This section describes the publisher modules provided for the Certificate Manager.
You can use these modules to configure a Certificate Manager to enable and
configure specific Publisher instances.
The available Publisher plug-in modules include the following:
• FileBasedPublisher
• LdapCaCertPublisher
• LdapUserCertPublisher
• LdapCrlPublisher
• LdapDeltaCrlPublisher
• LdapCertificatePairPublisher
• OCSPPublisher
You can create custom publisher plug-in modules using the CMS SDK.