Populating a Keystore

Before you can enable the board for use with a Sun ONE Web Server, you must first initialize the board and populate the board’s keystore with at least one user. The keystore for the board is created during the initialization process. You can also initialize Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 boards to use an existing keystore. Refer to “Initializing the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 Board With vcaadm” on page 65.

Note Only one keystore per Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board can be configured and you must configure one keystore per board. You can configure multiple Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 boards to collectively work with the same keystore to provide additional performance and fault-tolerance.

To Populate a Keystore

1.If you have not already done so, place the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 tools directory in your search path, for example:

$ PATH=$PATH:/opt/SUNWconn/bin $ export PATH

2.Access the vcaadm utility with the vcaadm command or enter vcaadm -hhostname to connect vcaadm to a board on a remote host.

Refer to “Using vcaadm” on page 55.

$ vcaadm -h hostname

3.Populate the board’s keystore with users.

These user names are known only within the domain of the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board and do not need to be identical to the UNIX user name that the web server process is using. Before attempting to create the user, remember that you must first log in as a vcaadm security officer.

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4000 specifications

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