Title: Enabling HTTPS with Required X.509 Client Certificates

Before continuing, you must have a client certificate installed in your browser. You must also import this certificate's CA into Traction. If you do not perform both of these steps, once you put Traction into TLS w/Client Certs, you will be unable to log in.

Once you do this, all users who have client certificates signed by this CA will be able to connect to Traction.

The instructions below explain how to:

1. Confirm you have a client certificate installed.

2. Export the certificate of the CA that signed the client certificate to your desktop.

3. Import the CA cert into Traction

4. Put Traction into HTTPS w/Client Certs mode.

Confirming you have a client certificate installed



These instructions are for Internet Explorer. Most browsers provide similar capabilities; see your browser's help for instructions.

Select Internet Options from the Tools menu.



Switch to the Content tab and click the Certificates button.



If one or more certificates is listed here, you can proceed. If not, stop! You don't have a client certificate and won't be able to complete the setup procedure.



Export the certificate of the CA that signed the client certificate to your desktop.



Important! Note: You do not want to export your own certificate; you must import the certificate of the CA that signed your certificate. Traction will allow you to import your own certificate, but it will not allow you to log in using that certificate!

Double-click your selected certificate in the list above. If you have multiple certificates, select the one signed by the CA you wish Traction to trust.

This will show your certificate.



Click the Certification Path tab, and select the certificate of the signing CA. This is usually right above your certificate. This CA need not be trusted by the browser (indicated by the X), but it must be trusted by Traction to enable you to log in.



Now, with the CA's certificate selected, click the View Certificate button.



Click on the Details tab, and press the Copy to File button.



Click Next once the Wizard opens.



Choose the Base-64 .CER format.



Choose a filename to which to save the certificate. You can delete the local file once the certificate has been imported into Traction.



After you have saved the file, you can close the Wizard and other Internet Options windows.

In Server Setup | Network, change the Security Level to HTTPS with Client Certs, but do not yet press Apply.



A second link will appear underneath, reading: "TLS with Client Certificates requires that client certificates be trusted.

Click here to manage trusted certificates."



Click where it says, "Click here to manage trusted certificates." This will open the Manage Trust Store's Trusted Server Certificates interface. In addition to trusting client certificates, this interface is also used to trust secure mail servers and LDAP servers. For more information, see Overview of the Trust Manager.



Next, in the Add Trusted Certificate section, browse to the file in which you saved the CA's certificate. You can type an Alias if you like. The alias is only used when interacting with the keystore using other Java tools like keytool.



Click the Add button to upload the certificate. The certificate's details will be displayed in the Selected Entry section.



Now that you have imported the CA's certificate, you will be able to login once you switch to TLS w/Client Certs, so you can press Apply on the Server Setup | Network page.



Now when you try to connect to your server, your browser will ask you to select which certificate you would like to present. Any certificate signed by a CA trusted by Traction can be used to establish the connection.



HTTPS with Client Certificate setup is now complete. You can repeat this process to import as many CA certificates as you like.





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