Introduction

This article will discuss how to use client-side certificates for authentication in SharePlus.  The article is aimed at those who will be administrating SharePlus within an enterprise.

You may deploy your client-side certificates manually, or via an MDM server.  This article focuses on the manual approach.

 

Steps

Step 1: Copy the client-side certificate to the iPad running SharePlus

Connect your iPad and PC that to the same WiFi network.  Enable WiFi sharing on SharePlus (screen shots below).

 

Tap on “Local Files” on the home page.

 

Tap the WiFi sharing button.

 

Toggle the Wifi sharing feature on by tapping “Off.”

On your PC, open a web browser and navigate to the URL of the SharePlus file share.

 

 

Click the “Browse” button on the web page and select your client-side certificate from your PC.

 

Click “Submit”

 

Toggle off WiFi sharing by tapping the “On” button.

 

You will see the client-side certificate in your SharePlus local files.

 

Step 2: Associate the client-side certificate with a set of SharePlus credentials

 

Tap “Edit” on the home page of SharePlus to configure the site that you would like to use the certificate with.

 

 

Tap the expand arrow on the account that you would like to use the certificate with.

 

Turn “Use Certificate” on.

 

Tap “Certificate File” and select your certificate.

 

Save the settings.

 

The next time you connect to your site, your certificate will be used.