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Uploading a User Certificate

You upload user certificates if you enabled X.509 certificate–based authentication.

Before you proceed, make sure that the user certificate is available on your local system.

Uploading a User Certificate for a New User

You upload user certificates when the new user must be authenticated by using certificate-based authentication.

Note:

You must be assigned the privileges of a user administrator to upload user certificates.

To upload a certificate for a new user:

  1. On the Junos Space Network Management Platform user interface, select Role Based Access Control > User Accounts and click the Create User icon.

    The Create User page appears.

  2. Enter values for the mandatory fields on the Create User page.

    For detailed information about the fields that appear on the Create User page, see Creating Users in Junos Space Network Management Platform.

  3. Click Browse adjacent to the X509 Cert File field to navigate to the location of the X.509 certificate file on your local system.
  4. Select the X.509 certificate file and click Upload.
  5. Click Finish.

    The user certificate for the new user is uploaded to Junos Space Platform.

Uploading a User Certificate for an Existing User

You upload a user certificate for an existing user before you enable certificate-based authentication or when you switch from parameter-based authentication to certificate based authentication (only for users who were added to Junos Space Platform after switching from certificate-based to parameter-based).

To upload a user certificate for an existing user:

  1. On the Junos Space Network Management Platform user interface, select Role Based Access Control > User Accounts.

    The User Accounts page appears.

  2. Select the user and click the Modify User icon.

    The Modify User page appears.

  3. Click Browse adjacent to the X509 Cert File field to navigate to the location of the X.509 certificate file on your local system.
  4. Select the X.509 certificate file and click Upload.
  5. Click Finish.

    The user certificate for the existing user is uploaded to Junos Space Platform.

Uploading Your User Certificate

You upload your user certificate when you need to add your user certificate or renew the existing user certificate.

To upload your user certificate:

  1. On the Junos Space Network Management Platform user interface, click the User Settings icon located at the top-right corner of the Junos Space Platform user interface (next to the Log Out icon).

    The Change User Settings pop-up window is displayed.

  2. Click the X.509 Certificate tab.
  3. In the Certificate Subject Name field, enter the string that needs to be secured.

    For example, it could be a person’s e-mail address, a website address, or a system’s IP address, and so on.

  4. Click Browse adjacent to the X.509 Certificate File field to navigate to the location of the X.509 certificate file on your local system.
  5. Select the X.509 certificate file and click Upload.
  6. Click OK.

    Your certificate file is uploaded to Junos Space Platform.

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