[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hi,
> I have installed the Netscape Certificate Server 1.01 for myself.
> and I request a personal certificate through my Netscape Navigator 4.05.
> I have set the CA is trusted .
>
> but when I open the Netscape Navigator ,select "security" ,"certificates",
> "yours",select the certificate, and click "verify"
> but the brower says:
> Verification of the selected certificate failed for the following reasons:
> CN=rd,OU=ncic,O=ac,C=us[Certificate Authority]
> Certificate not trusted
>
> why?
The 'verify' operation in Netscape just verifies for email use so if the
CA isn't set to allow email then this is the problem. Otherwise its
possible I suppose that the issuer and subject names are the same or
very similar and it is trying to check the user certificate as a CA:
which wont work.
Steve.
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