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Get the signer distinguished name to exclude executables on a client system

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The Signer Distinguished Name (SDN) is required when you enable a digital signature check and exclude only files signed by a specified process signer.

Task
  1. Right-click an executable and select Properties.

  2. On the Digital Signatures tab, select a signer and click Details.

  3. On the General tab, click View Certificate.

  4. On the Details tab, select the Subject field.

    The SDN appears.

    For example, Firefox has this SDN:

    CN = Mozilla Corporation

    OU = Release Engineering

    O = Mozilla Corporation

    L = Mountain View

    S = California

    C = US

    Note

    The SDN fields appear in reverse order from the required format.

  5. Copy the contents of the Subject field to a temporary location.

  6. Edit the information to reverse the order of the elements, remove line breaks, and separate the elements with commas.

    For example, the SDN required format is:

    C=US, S=CALIFORNIA, L=MOUNTAIN VIEW, O=MOZILLA CORPORATION, OU=RELEASE ENGINEERING, CN=MOZILLA CORPORATION

  7. When creating exclusions, copy and paste the certificate details as a single line of text to the Signed by field.