Re: PKI / Delegating Certificate Template Management

From: David Cross [MS] (dcross_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/30/04


Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 05:41:35 -0800

are you trying to change the ownership of the default templates that are
installed in AD?

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"Christoph Buchser" <ch.buchser@gmx.ch> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> Initial situation:
> Microsoft PKI with a standalone, offline CA and a subordinated
> enterprise ca with windows enterprise server 2003. Active Directory
> with a root domain and several subdomains.
> For administering the SubCA we established a user "CA-administrator"
> as a normal domain user in the active directory root domain. He has no
> domain administration rights granted but only local admin rights on
> the subca.
>
> Delegating Certificate Template Management:
> For convenience by managing the certificate templates without domain
> administrator rights, we've read the technet-document "Implementing
> and Administering Certificate Templates in Windows Server 2003"
>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/deploy/confeat/ws03crtm.asp
> We went for it step by step as described under "Delegating Template
> Management".
>
> Problem:
> Now as we tested with the ca-adminstrators account by working on a
> template by using the certificate templates-mmc, a warning was
> popped-up: "Windows cannot save changes to the certificate template.
> This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this object." We
> couldn't save the changed settings.
>
> So we changed the owner ot the template to this espescially created
> universal group. The same warning appeared! But the owner was this
> espescially created universal group with the ca-administrator as a
> member of it!
>
> We experimented and joined the ca-administrator also to the
> domain-administrators group and then it worked fine. But this is not
> what we are looking for.
>
> Question:
> What does this have to do with the security id of the ca-administrator
> in spite he is a member of the owner-group of this object?
> Why does it not work with the group as the owner?
> What is the problem?
>
> Thanks to all who have some ideas!
>
> Christoph Buchser, Switzerland


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