[Freeipa-users] 3rd party certificate for WebUI only

Prashant Bapat prashant at apigee.com
Thu Jul 2 06:27:00 UTC 2015


Since the commercial cert is outside IPA renewing that cert would not
impact IPA at all.

On 2 July 2015 at 11:50, Prasun Gera <prasun.gera at gmail.com> wrote:

> How smooth is the renewal process ? if the webui cert expires, does it
> affect the core ipa functionality in any way ? Also, when ipa does it's own
> auto-renewal, does it leave the webui alone if set up this way ?
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Prashant Bapat <prashant at apigee.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I had the exact same requirement. Since we're on AWS, I ended up putting
>> a ELB in front of each of my IPA servers with a commercial cert for web UI.
>> The communication between ELB and the IPA server is using the IPA CA cert.
>>
>> On 2 July 2015 at 07:03, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Stephen Ingram wrote:
>>>
>>>> I setup IPA using the internal CA. I'd like to continue using this CA,
>>>> however, I'd also like to allow authorized external browser users (who
>>>> haven't imported our CA) to access the WebUI without receiving a
>>>> warning. Is it possible to add a 3rd party certificate and CA such that
>>>> it is only used for the WebUI using the instructions at
>>>> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Using_3rd_part_certificates_for_HTTP/LDAP?
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> In a word: yes.
>>>
>>> I'd recommend making a backup of /etc/httpd/alias and
>>> /etc/httpd/conf.d/nss.conf  before doing this to make rolling back, if
>>> necessary, easier.
>>>
>>> rob
>>>
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