[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 0046 Create server certs with DNS altname

[Fraser Tweedale]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 01:53:15PM +0100, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 12/07/2015 06:26 AM, Fraser Tweedale wrote:
> > The attached patch fixes
> > https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4970.
> > 
> > Note that the problem is addressed by adding the appropriate request
> > extension to the CSR; the fix does not involve changing the default
> > profile behaviour, which is complicated (see ticket for details).
> 
> Thanks for the patch! This is something we should really fix, I already get
> warnings in my Python scripts when I hit sites protected by such HTTPS cert:
> 
> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connection.py:264:
> SubjectAltNameWarning: Certificate for projects.engineering.redhat.com has no
> `subjectAltName`, falling back to check for a `commonName` for now. This
> feature is being removed by major browsers and deprecated by RFC 2818. (See
> https://github.com/shazow/urllib3/issues/497 for details.)
> 
> Should we split ticket 4970, for the FreeIPA server part and then for cert
> profile part? As it looks like the FreeIPA server will be fixed even in FreeIPA
> 4.3.x and the other part later.
> 
> How difficult do you see the general FreeIPA Certificate Profile part of this
> request? Is it a too big task to handle in 4.4 time frame?
>
I will split the ticket and would suggest 4.4 Backlog - it might be
doable but is a lower priority than e.g. Sub-CAs.

Cheers,
Fraser