[Freeipa-devel] certmonger proxy configuration not possible ?

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Thu, 04 Aug 2016, Marx, Peter wrote:
>I tried it and found out it can't work this way - when issuing a CSR
>with getcert, the parameters of this request are normally handed over
>by getcert to the scep-submit helper. I see no way to intercept these
>parameters  and pass them to the proxy-shellscript. Only the -u
>paramter is known beforehand, as it is configured in the ca description
>file or in the proxy shellscript itself.
On systemd-enabled systems certmonger runs as a service. You can affect
the environment of the service by adding files ending in .conf in
/etc/systemd/system/certmonger.service.d/

See systemd.service and systemd.unit man pages.

>
>Peter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rob Crittenden [mailto:rcritten at redhat.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 3:52 PM
>To: Marx, Peter; 'freeipa-devel at redhat.com'
>Subject: Re: [Freeipa-devel] certmonger proxy configuration not possible ?
>
>Marx, Peter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i have to access an external PKI server with SCEP protocol through our
>> corporate proxy.  On command line I can set the proxy and trigger a
>> CSR with the scep-submit helper successfully.
>
>What are you setting, environment variables I assume?
>
>> But same operation with getcert fails, as there is no proxy
>> configuration possibility in e.g. certmonger.conf.
>>
>> How can I work around this ?
>
>A quick kludge might be to replace scep-submit with a shell script that exports the proxy config and then calls the real scep-submit.
>
>A perhaps better and more supportable idea would be to add a CA pointing to this new helper, something like:
>
>getcert add-ca -c exampleSCEPca -e \
>     "/usr/libexec/certmonger/scep-submit-proxy -u http://ca.example.com/cgi-bin/pkiclient.exe"
>
>So scep-submit-proxy would setup the environment and call scep-submit.
>
>rob
>
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