It would be whatever the machine is called, in your case,
secure.macinshop.be. As I understand it, and folks, please correct any
misunderstandings, the CN within the certificate is used by the browser to
verify that the machine sending the data is actually that box, and not some
other box that someone at that site created. The certificate is unique to
a specific machine. There are site certificates that use a wildcard in the
CN, but I think I remember Netscape and IE both complaining about the fact
that the wildcard didn't match the hostname sending the certificate.
Jon
At 03:19 PM 4/7/00 +0200, you wrote:
>I would like a Verisign's certificate for server.
>In csr's creating, I'm not sure of the parameter : Common Name.
>My domain is : macinshop.be
>and my hostname is : secure
>
>I don't know if I must set CommonName=macinshop.be OR
>CommonName=secure.macinshop.be ?
>
>Comments :
> - I work on MacOSX Server
>
>Thanking you in anticipation
>
>
>Christian Margreve
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