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<h1 class="topictitle1">Use APIs to programmatically issue certificates to non-iSeries users</h1>
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<div><p>Use this information to learn how you can use your Local CA to
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issue private certificates to users without associating the certificate
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with an <span class="keyword">iSeries™</span> user profile.</p>
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<div class="section"><p>In <span class="keyword">i5/OS™</span> V5R3
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or later, there are two new APIs available that you can use to programmatically
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issue certificates to non-iSeries users. In previous releases, when you used
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your Local Certificate Authority (CA) to issue certificates to users, these
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certificates were automatically associated with their <span class="keyword">iSeries</span> user
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profiles. Consequently, to use the Local CA to issue a certificate to a user
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for client authentication, you had to provide that user with an <span class="keyword">iSeries</span> user
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profile. Also, when users needed to obtain a certificate from a Local CA for
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client authentication, each user had to use Digital Certificate Manager (DCM)
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to create the needed certificate. Therefore, each user must have a user profile
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on the <span class="keyword">iSeries</span> server that
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hosts DCM and a valid signon to that <span class="keyword">iSeries</span> server.</p>
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<div class="section"><p>Having the certificate associated with a user profile has its
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advantages, especially when internal users are concerned. However, these restrictions
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and requirements made it less practical to use the Local CA to issue user
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certificates for a large number of users, especially when you do not want
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those users to have an <span class="keyword">iSeries</span> user
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profile. To avoid providing user profiles to these users, you might require
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users to pay for a certificate from a well-known CA if you wanted to require
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certificates for user authentication for your applications. </p>
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<div class="section"><p>These two new APIs provide support that allows you to provide
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an interface for creating user certificates signed by the Local CA certificate
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for any user name. This certificate will not be associated with a user profile.
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The user does not need to exist on the <span class="keyword">iSeries</span> server
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that hosts DCM and the user does not need to use DCM to create the certificate.
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<div class="section"><p>There are two APIs, one for each of the predominate browser programs,
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that you can call when using Net.Data<sup>®</sup> to create a program for issuing certificates
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to users. The application that you create must provide the Graphical User
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Interface (GUI) code needed to create the user certificate and to call one
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of the appropriate API to use the Local CA to sign the certificate. </p>
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<div class="section"><div class="p">For more information about using these APIs, see these pages:
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<ul><li>Generate and Sign User Certificate Request (<a href="../apis/qycugsuc.htm">QYCUGSUC</a>) API.</li>
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<li>Sign User Certificate Request (<a href="../apis/qycusuc.htm">QYCUSUC</a>) API.</li>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzahurzahu4anactingownca.htm" title="This information explains how to create and operate a Local Certificate Authority (CA) to issue private certificates for your applications.">Create and operate a Local CA</a></div>
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<div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br />
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<div><a href="rzahurzahu4afinternetvsprivcert.htm" title="Review this information to learn how to determine which type of certificate (public or private) best suits your business needs.">Public certificates versus private certificates</a></div>
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<div><a href="rzahurzahu4aeauthenticatewcerts.htm" title="Review this information to learn how to use certificates to provide a means of more strongly authenticating users who access iSeries system resources.">Digital certificates for user authentication</a></div>
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</div>
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<div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br />
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<div><a href="rzahurzahu4anactingownca.htm" title="This information explains how to create and operate a Local Certificate Authority (CA) to issue private certificates for your applications.">Create and operate a Local CA</a></div>
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