Netscape NETSCAPE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 4.5, Installation And Setup Manual

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Starting Certificate Management System
314 Netscape Certificate Management System Installation and Setup Guide • October 2001
Here’s how you can do it:
1.
Go to this directory:
<server_root>/cert-<instance_id>/config
2.
Locate the
pwcache.p12
file.
3.
Either rename or delete the file.
4.
Start the server from the command line; see “Starting From the Command
Line” on page 318.
You are prompted for all the required passwords.
Later, if you want to revert back to starting the server using the single sign-on
password:
1.
Create a password cache and then create entries for all the required passwords.
For instructions on creating a new password cache and adding new entries to
the password cache, see Chapter 2, “Password Cache Utility” of CMS
Command-Line Tools Guide.
2.
Copy the file to the
<server_root>/cert-<instance_id>/config
directory.
3.
Start the server from the command line; see “Starting From the Command
Line” on page 318.
You are prompted for the single sign-on password.
Configuring the Server to Read the Single Sign-on Password From a
File
Every time you start Certificate Management System, you are required to enter
either the single sign-on password or all the passwords required by the server to
startup (see “Required Start-up Information” on page 312 and “Configuring the
Server to Start Without the Single Sign-On Password” on page 313). By default,
there is no way to start Certificate Management System non-interactively; the
startcert
script requires you to enter a password.
If it is inconvenient for you to start the server this way, you can store the single
sign-on password in a file and edit the
startcert
script to use this file to start
without any prompts. Configuring the server this way eliminates the need for you
to enter the single sign-on password every time you start the server—it can be
useful on UNIX machines to have the server automatically started if the machine
reboots for any reason, and it can be useful on Windows NT to be able to start the
server without having to be at the system console. Note that there is no way to
make the edited startcert script a service that is automatically started by Windows
NT at startup, so if the machine reboots due to a power failure, Certificate
Management System will not start automatically.