Red Hat CERTIFICATE 7.1 ADMINISTRATOR, Administrator'S Manual

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Configuring the Certificate Manager
116 Red Hat Certificate System Administrator’s Guide • September 2005
The .cfg file contains these parameters:
numRequests. The total number of PCKS #10 or CRMF requests. In some cases, the value
of this parameter can be 0.
Example:
numRequests=1
input. The full path, including the filename, for the PCKS #10 or CRMF request, which
must be in base-64 encoded format. Multiple filenames are separated by white space. This
is a required parameter if
numRequests
> 0.
Example:
input=crmf1
output. The full path, including the filename, for the resulting CMC request in binary
format. This is a required parameter.
Example:
output=cmc
nickname . Nickname of the agent certificate used to sign the full CMC request. This is a
required parameter.
Example:
nickname=CS Agent-102504a's 102504a ID
dbdir. Full path to the directory where
cert8.db
,
key3.db
, and
secmod.db
are located.
This is a required parameter.
Example:
dbdir=/u/smith/db/
password. Password for
cert8.db
, which stores the agent certificate. This is a required
parameter.
Example:
password=redhat
format. Request format, either
pkcs10
or
crmf
.
Example:
format=crmf
The following parameters specify CMC control attributes:
confirmCertAcceptance.enable. If
true
, then the request will contain this control.
Absence of this parameter is interpreted as
false
.
Example:
confirmCertAcceptance.enable=false
confirmCertAcceptance.serial. The serial number for the
confirmCertAcceptance
control.
Example:
confirmCertAcceptance.serial=3