[Freeipa-users] Automatic IPA CA cert generation

[David Kupka]

On 22/09/15 17:02, James Masson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> we're building IPAs in an automated fashion, for environments that get
> created and destroyed a lot. At the moment, the CA certs used inside
> these IPAs are self-signed, as part of the normal "ipa-server-install"
> setup process.
>
> We would like to switch to issuing signed intermediate CA certs to the
> IPAs we deploy.
>
> The documentation lists the two part process necessary for this. First
> "--external-ca" - and then "--external-cert-file"
>
> Are there any ways to skip this, and give the setup process a known
> public/private key+cert up front? I'm hoping to avoid the need to have
> to use/send this automatically generated CSR every time.
>
> thanks
>
> James M
>

Hello James,
currently it's not possible but making installation with externally 
signed CA single step sounds really useful to me.
Currently certmonger is generating the CSR for FreeIPA server in the 
first step of installation. Certmonger is also able to send certificate 
to external CA for signing.

I'm not sure if we could combine these two cermonger's abilities right 
now but if not it shouldn't be difficult to add functionality to 
certmonger to send the CSR to preconfigured CA instead of just storing 
it in file.

This would of course require configuring the certmonger with information 
about the CA before FreeIPA server installation but it's just one 
command (getcert-add-ca).

Could you please file a ticket (https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/newticket)?

-- 
David Kupka