Re: [Ejbca-develop] Searching for certificates by Serial Number in web-GUI

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Sn in the dn is not the same as certificate serno. It's for things such as device serials, very common with routers etc. Also used in eid's for perosnal numbers, social securite numbers etc.

/Tomas


Arshad Noor <ars...@st...> wrote:

>Thanks, Tomas.  I wondered about that, but thought that might have been
>an error in the GUI text.  I wasn't aware that people were using SN's
>in the DN.  While redundant, I guess it makes it easier for people to
>see it without having to parse the certificate.
>
>Arshad
>
>On 11/03/2011 03:04 AM, Tomas Gustavsson wrote:
>>
>> I guess you are searching for "Serialnumber in DN" in advanced mode,
>> i.e. a SERIALNUMBER DN field andnot the certificate serial number.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tomas
>>
>> On 11/02/2011 03:37 AM, Arshad Noor wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but why is it that we can
>>> find a certificate through the web-GUI in Basic Mode using the
>cert's
>>> Serial Number, but the same serial number, when used in Advanced
>Mode
>>> cannot be found?
>>>
>>> I even shortened the serial number to a just a few hex digits since
>I
>>> noticed that the filter says "Begins with" in the Advanced Mode; but
>>> even that didn't help.  Is there a special way that queries must be
>>> formulated for searching by Serial Numbers in Advanced Mode?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>
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