[Freeipa-users] Switch to 3rd party SSL

Andrew Chin chin at juniper.net
Fri Jan 9 16:21:24 UTC 2015


Thanks Rob, I’ll give it a try!
Andrew Chin



> On Jan 7, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Andrew Chin wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I want to switch our FreeIPA 3.3.5 from using the FreeIPA CA self signed certificate to one signed by a commercial CA that browsers will recognize.
>> 
>> The documentation at http://www.freeipa.org/page/Using_3rd_part_certificates_for_HTTP/LDAP says "The certificate in mysite.crt must be signed by the CA used when installing FreeIPA.”  Does this preclude me from installing the commercial cert? If not, should I just follow the directions for IPA < 4.1?
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew Chin
> 
> That is rather confusing isn't it. IMHO It should really say that the
> cert is signed by your 3rd party CA.
> 
> You'll also want to make sure that the issuing CA is trusted in your NSS
> databases as well.
> 
> rob

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