[Freeipa-devel] Re: Certificate enrollment, principal names

[Rob Crittenden]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 13:21 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> This is about right. What you're missing is storing the certificate
>> in 
>> the service record. To do this we need to know what the target is.
>>
>> Nalin and I simply took two different approaches to sending this. We
>> can 
>> easily support either method by making the principal an optional 
>> attribute and looking for it in the CSR if not provided (assuming I
>> can 
>> get my head around PKCS#10 enough to grab attributes).
> 
> Given we should prevent "tricks" from people the server side should
> really parse the CSR and validate it against the ACL IMO.
> Otherwise do we have any other part that checks that host
> foo.example.com is asking a certificate for itself and not for
> bar.example.com ?
> 
> Simo.
> 

When binding using machine credentials, in order to request a 
certificate for any host they need to be in the managedBy attribute of 
the target service entry.

rob

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