dogtagpki

#1125 Cert nickname should not be required with -c/-C.
Closed: Fixed Opened by edewata.

Closed: Fixed
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The -c/-C options are used to specify client security database password. Usually it's used for client cert authentication which also requires the cert nickname. The nickname can be specified with -n option. However, with client-init command the password is only used to create the client security database, it should not require a nickname. The code that requires -n when -C/-C is specified should be removed.

$ pki -c Secret123 client-init
Error:  If either of the '-C' or '-c' options are specified, the '-n' client authentication option must also be specified!

Proposed milestone: 10.2

The 'pki' man page should also be updated when this is fixed, as it currently states that -n is required with -c/-C:

       -c <client security database password>
              Specifies the client security database password (mutually exclusive to the '-C' option; requires the '-n' client authentication option).
       -C <client-side password file>
              Specifies the file which contains the client security database password (mutually exclusive to the '-c' option;  requires  the  '-n'  client
              authentication option).

Moved to 10.2.1.

master: 2f7e6de6c489a49f7a7be473e5752ef49472bbcc

Metadata Update from @edewata:
- Issue assigned to edewata
- Issue set to the milestone: 10.2 - 08/14 (August)

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