[Freeipa-devel] Using your own certs

[Rob Crittenden]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:26 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:12 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>> We wanted to provide an easy way to replace the self-signed certificates 
>>> generated during IPA installation so we created a tool, 
>>> ipa-server-certinstall. Unfortunately this is pretty badly broken in 
>>> v1.1. I've fixed it in the tip but there is one last issue sort of 
>>> peripherally related.
>>>
>>> When we create a replica using ipa-replica-prepare we pre-generate the 
>>> SSL certs for use on the replica. If you've replaced the DS certs then 
>>> you no longer have a CA to issue the certs so the replica preparation 
>>> falls down pretty hard.
>>>
>>> The "CA" in IPA isn't really much of anything but we do keep a serial 
>>> number file (/usr/share/ipa/serialno) to keep track of things. What I 
>>> was thinking is that if the DS certificate is replaced then we 
>>> rename/delete this file. I can then test for existence so I can do the 
>>> right thing in ipa-replica-prepare (by prompting for the 2 PKCS#12 files 
>>> to install on the remote server).
>>>
>>> Otherwise I'm going to need to test for the CA using certutil and try to 
>>> parse the output to see whether I can continue or not.
>>>
>>> Does this sound reasonable?
>> Works for me, serialno is useless anyway if we are not using a
>> selfsigned ca, go that route.
> 
> The only gotcha is that we must move that file (in any case)
> unde /var/lib/ipa, as we are not supposed to change stuff in /usr during
> normal operations. Also we must make sure that file is not owned by the
> rpm package or rpm will a) complain, b) put back a new file on upgrade.
> 
> Simo.
> 

Good point. I may in fact move it to /etc/ipa.

rpm doesn't know about this file so we're ok there.

rob
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