Alex Tang wrote:

Using another Netscape 4.75 window, I went to the ra server and found the
pending certificate request, and then chose to "approve and sign" the
request. It went through the signing steps, and i chose the RA Manager
ID to sign the request.

The resulting page says:

Request Approved

Description: Certificate Request Successfully approved.

Signature:
(Note that there is nothing after "Signature:").
There is only a message if something goes wrong. I know that this is not the optimum.

If i then go into the ra or the pub server and look for certificates, i
only see the CA Manager (serial number 1), and RA Manager (serial number
2).  There is no certificate for the user i just created.
This is correct. I think I have to explain how OpenCA works:

1. approve the request (state of request: APPROVED)
2. If you use OpenCA in an offline-configuration then you must export the request to the CA.
3. Issue the certificate via the CA-interface. There you can check the signature.
4. If you use OpenCA in an offline-configuration then you must export the cert to the RA.

pub-interface: PENDING_REQUEST
RA: APPROVED_REQUEST
CA: ARCHIVED_REQUEST and VALID_CERTIFICATE

Best regards

Michael

P.S. There is a file doc/lifecycle.ps in the new tarballs which shows the states in our system.
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