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Certificate-based Authentication Tests

The SiteMinder Test Tool simulates user authentication and authorization. Certificate-based authentication schemes require additional configuration.

Different certificate-generation tools sometimes affect the format of the issuer DN and other attributes of a certificate.

For example, the Issuer DN for a certificate generated with certutil.exe on an IIS web server could use ST= to represent the state. However, the Issuer DN for a certificate generated with OpenSSL tools on an Oracle iPlanet web server could possibly use S= to represent the state.

Note: For more information about the actual values used by a specific certificate-generation tool, see the documentation provided by the vendor of your certificate-generation tool.

To test certificate-based authentication schemes, configure certificate mappings in the Policy Server to accommodate certificates created with different certificate-generation tools.