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= enable-secure-admin-principal

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== enable-secure-admin-principal

Instructs {productName}, when secure admin is enabled, to accept
admin requests from clients identified by the specified SSL certificate.

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=== Synopsis

[source]
----
asadmin [asadmin-options] enable-secure-admin-principal [--help]
--alias aliasname | DN
----

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=== Description

The `enable-secure-admin-principal` subcommand instructs
{productName} to accept admin requests when accompanied by an SSL
certificate with the specified distinguished name (DN). If you use the
"`--alias` aliasname" form, then {productName} looks in its
truststore for a certificate with the specified alias and uses the DN
associated with that certificate. Otherwise, {productName} records
the value you specify as the DN.

You must specify either the `--alias` option, or the DN.

You can run `enable-secure-admin-principal` multiple times so that
{productName} accepts admin requests from a client sending a
certificate with any of the DNs you specify.

When you run `enable-secure-admin`, {productName} automatically
records the DNs for the admin alias and the instance alias, whether you
specify those values or use the defaults. You do not need to run
`enable-secure-admin-principal` yourself for those certificates. Other
than these certificates, you must run `enable-secure-admin-principal`
for any other DN that {productName} should authorize to send admin
requests. This includes DNs corresponding to trusted certificates (those
with a certificate chain to a trusted authority.)

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=== Options

asadmin-options::
  Options for the `asadmin` utility. For information about these
  options, see the link:asadmin.html#asadmin-1m[`asadmin`(1M)] help page.
`--help`::
`-?`::
  Displays the help text for the subcommand.
`--alias`::
  The alias name of the certificate in the trust store.
  {productName} looks up certificate in the trust store using that
  alias and, if found, stores the corresponding DN as being valid for
  secure administration. Because alias-name must be an alias associated
  with a certificate currently in the trust store, you may find it most
  useful for self-signed certificates.

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=== Operands

DN::
  The distinguished name of the certificate, specified as a
  comma-separated list in quotes. For example,
  `"CN=system.amer.oracle.com,OU=GlassFish,O=Oracle Corporation,L=Santa Clara,ST=California,C=US"`.

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=== Examples

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==== Example 1   Trusting a DN for secure administration

The following example shows how to specify a DN for authorizing access
in secure administration.

[source]
----
asadmin> enable-secure-admin-principal
"CN=system.amer.oracle.com,OU=GlassFish,
O=Oracle Corporation,L=Santa Clara,ST=California,C=US"

Command enable-secure-admin-principal executed successfully.
----

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=== Exit Status

0::
  subcommand executed successfully
1::
  error in executing the subcommand

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=== See Also

link:asadmin.html#asadmin-1m[`asadmin`(1M)]

link:disable-secure-admin-principal.html#disable-secure-admin-principal-1[`disable-secure-admin-principal`(1)],
link:enable-secure-admin.html#enable-secure-admin-1[`enable-secure-admin`(1)]