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Certificates on Windows 11 are absolute trash. They removed the ability to impersonate accounts by only allowing a pin certificate. The problem is there used to be a mechanism to login by username and password, but its gone now. So if you're pin cert doesnt work, there is no way to impersonate the cert anymore or emulate a seperate account. What retard thought this was a good idea...

Certificates on Windows 11 are absolute trash. They removed the ability to impersonate accounts by only allowing a pin certificate. The problem is there used to be a mechanism to login by username and password, but its gone now. So if you're pin cert doesnt work, there is no way to impersonate the cert anymore or emulate a seperate account. What retard thought this was a good idea...

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[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Can you explain in normal english again?

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It used to be that at one point, you could emulate the credentials you wanted to install a certificate. Now, Windows removed the option which means if you want to impersonate an account, you're fucked. This is a problem when you wnat to use your own account with different credential method (pin code vs username/password)

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I still don't understand. Windows 10 was asking any email to start. What changed now?

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This is more for certificate files, which are installed by other providers, be it a web browser, or corp cert. Essentially, Windows removed the ability to emulate personalities and identities, and it is now a single baked identity that can not change