What are the best practices to map a client certificate to an user account?

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We have a proprietary framework and now we want to integrate the authentication by client side ssl certificates. What are the best practices to map a client certificate to a proprietary user account (for example a simple user table in the database)?

Save to public key of the certificate?
Save issuer and serialnumber?

Or are there other possibilities?

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