"Ohaya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Nelson B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Ohaya wrote:
> >
> > > Instead of 7.1, I download NS 6.1 from Netscape's archive website,
since
> > > according to this website, NS6.1 has PSM 2.0 integrated.
> > >
> > > I don't know if this is relevant, but with NS 6.1, I can import those
> same
> > > CA certs, and trust purposes are not cleared after the import...
> >
> > I'll bet it works with a brand new "profile" (brand new cert7.db and
> > key3.db files in psm 1.x, too.
>
> I'll try with new files...


Nelson,

Ok, I think that I've figured out what is going on.

It turns out that what I thought was the CA's cert was actually a package of
certs for the root CA and for several sub-root CAs.  When downloaded via IE,
it showed up as a .CER file, which kind of threw me off  :(.

Also during the PSM import thing, it displays just the name of one of the
sub-root CAs, and it appears that when I check the purposes checkboxes, it
is setting the purposes for just that one sub-root CA cert (i.e., not for
the root CA cert, and not for any of the other sub-root CA certs).

So, it looks like the server cert on the host that I was trying to connect
to after I got these CA certs must've been issued by one of the other
sub-root CAs, other than the one that gets displayed in PSM when I do the
import.

Unfortunately, I can't verify this until I get into the office, but I will
test further tomorrow hopefully.

Thanks for all of your help thus far.  This has been very helpful!!

Jim


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