Chapter 5 Tutorial: Security Configuration

Overview of the security tutorial

You should be familiar with SSL concepts and terms before you run this tutorial. Refer to the Jaguar CTS System Administration Guide for an overview of SSL concepts and how to use Security Manager.

In this tutorial, you will:

Use Netscape's security features to:
- Request and install a personal certificate in your Netscape browser.
- Load Jaguar's test Certificate Authority (CA) certificate in Netscape and mark it "trusted." Once you have marked the certificate trusted, Netscape trusts the identity of the Jaguar server who presents a certificate signed by the Jaguar test CA.
Use Security Manager to:
- Load the signer's certificate (the CA that signed your personal certificate) in Jaguar and mark it trusted. This is required so that Jaguar trusts the identity of the client who presents a certificate signed by the signing CA.
- Generate a certificate signed by the test CA. Once you have assigned this certificate to a listener, it authenticates Jaguar when you connect to the listener from your browser.
- Create a security profile and assign it to a listener. This establishes the security parameters of your HTTPS and IIOPS ports.
Connect to the HTML page that contains the applet from your browser on a secure HTTPS listener and run the sample applet.