[Freeipa-users] host usercertificate attribute

[Rob Crittenden]

Natxo Asenjo wrote:
> hi rob,
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com
> <mailto:rcritten at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Natxo Asenjo wrote:
>
>         On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Natxo Asenjo
>         <natxo.asenjo at gmail.com <mailto:natxo.asenjo at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:natxo.asenjo at gmail.com <mailto:natxo.asenjo at gmail.com>>>
>         wrote:
>
>              hi,
>
>              If I retrieve the usercertificate attribute for host
>         objects I get
>              some gibberish.
>
>              How can I decode the info I get from ldapsearch?
>
>
>         maybe there is a way to feed that to openssl. What I ended up
>         doing was
>         using Perl and Crypt::X509 and I can see all the certificate
>         elements.
>
>
>     They are DER-encoded files. Something like this will show the contents:
>
>     $ openssl x509 -text -in /tmp/file
>
>
> $ openssl x509 -text -in ldapsearch-usercertificate-ZWnfJL
> unable to load certificate
> 139637925009264:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start
> line:pem_lib.c:703:Expecting: TRUSTED CERTIFICATE
>
> Apparently it misses some stuff.

You could try adding -inform  DER

> As I wrote, I already got what I needed using perl, but maybe there are
> other ways.

rob