System information

Release Date Errata Re-
lease
Bug Number Description
A user who had a revoked but otherwise valid
certificate could take advantage of this issue to
bypass the revocation list.
308161 If Certificate System received an OCSP re-
quest using the GET method, it returned an
HTTP 404 error because it could not properly
handle GET requests.
September
24, 2007
RHBA
2007:0927
254232 This extracts extensions from PKCS#10 re-
quests to use within the profile framework.
Table 6. Bugs Fixed in Errata Updates for Certificate System 7.2
8. Documentation
The Certificate System Administrator's Guide describes how to set up, configure, and administer the
Certificate System subsystems and how to configure backend certificate management functions, such
as publishing and logging. The Administrator's Guide also describes how to configure subsystems to
relate to one another to manage certificates and tokens and how to manage certificates and tokens;
this guide is targeted for Certificate System administrators.
The Certificate System Agent's Guide describes how agents — users responsible for processing certi-
ficate requests and managing other aspects of certificate management — can use the Certificate Sys-
tem subsystems web services pages to process certificate requests, key recovery, OCSP requests
and CRLs, and other functions.
The documentation for Certificate System includes the following guides:
•
Certificate System Administrator's Guide explains all administrative functions for the Certificate Sys-
tem, such as adding users, creating and renewing certificates, managing smart cards, publishing
CRLs, and modifying subsystem settings like port numbers.
•
Certificate System Agent's Guide details how to perform agent operations for the CA, RA, DRM, and
TPS subsystems through the Certificate System agent services interfaces.
•
Certificate System Command-Line Tools Guide covers the command-line scripts supplied with Red
Hat Certificate System.
•
Managing Smart Cards with the Enterprise Security Client explains how to install, configure, and use
the Enterprise Security Client, the user client application for managing smart cards, user certificates,
and user keys.
•
Certificate System Migration Guides cover version-specific procedures for migrating from older ver-
sions of Certificate System to Red Hat Certificate System 7.2.
•
Release Notes contains important information on new features, fixed bugs, known issues and work-
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