It is the responsibility of the Appliance Administrator to add or remove trusted root certificates to the Safeguard for Privileged Passwords Appliance. If you are going to verify the server certificate, then you do need a certificate from the server certificates chain of trust in Trusted Certificates.
Examples:
- If you uploaded a syslog client certificate with a private key, you may need to upload the certificate's root CA to the list of trusted certificates. For more information, see Syslog Client Certificate.
- An SSL/TLS certificate must be trusted to resolve the chain of authority. For an SSL/TSL certificate, when Safeguard for Privileged Passwords connects to an asset that has the Verify SSL Certificate option enabled, the signing authority of the certificate presented by the asset is compared to the certificates in the trusted certificate store. For more information, see Verify SSL Certificate.
Go to the following selection, based on your client:
web client: Navigate to
Certificates | Trusted CA Certificates.
desktop client: Navigate to
Settings |
Certificates | Trusted Certificates.
Select a certificate to display the following information for the user-supplied certificates added to the trusted certificate store.
Table 155: Trusted CA certificates: Properties
Subject |
The name of the subject (such as user, program, computer, service or other entity) assigned to the certificate when it was requested. |
Issued By |
The name of the certificate authority (CA) that issued the certificate. |
Certificate Type |
Trusted |
Thumbprint |
A unique hash value that identifies the certificate. |
Invalid Before |
A "start" date and time that must be met before a certificate can be used. |
Expiration Date |
The date and time when the certificate expires and can no longer be used. |
Toolbar options follow.
Table 156: Trusted Certificates: Toolbar
Upload New Trusted CA Certificate |
Add a trusted certificate. |
Delete Selected |
Delete the selected certificate. |
Refresh |
Update the list of certificates. |
Prior to adding an asset that uses SSL server certificate validation, add the certificate's root CA and any intermediate CAs to the Trusted Certificates store in Safeguard for Privileged Passwords. For more information, see Verify SSL Certificate.
You may need to add the syslog server certificate if it is signed by the same CA.
If a certificate upload fails, the audit log reflects: TrustedCertificateUploadFailed or ServerCertificateUploadFailed.
To add a trusted certificate
- Go to the following selection, based on your client:
web client: Navigate to
Certificates | Trusted CA Certificates.
desktop client: Navigate to Administrative Tools | Settings | Certificates | Trusted Certificates.
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Click
Upload New Trusted CA Certificate from the details toolbar.
- Browse and select the certificate file then click Open.
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On the dialog box, enter the case sensitive passphrase to import the certificate. If the certificate does not have a private key passphrase, leave the field empty and click OK.
To remove certificates from the appliance
- Go to the following selection, based on your client:
web client: Navigate to
Certificates | Trusted CA Certificates.
desktop client: Navigate to Administrative Tools | Settings | Certificates | Trusted Certificates.
- Select a certificate.
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Click
Delete Trusted CA Certificate from the details toolbar.
IMPORTANT: Safeguard for Privileged Passwords does not allow you to remove built-in certificate authorities.